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Geotab Investigations brings telematics data, video, photos, reports and other evidence into one case file to help fleets determine what happened and resolve incidents faster.
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This week is Brake Safety Week, one of two enforcement and outreach campaigns dedicated to promoting truck and bus brake safety held by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance each year. The unannounced Brake Check is held each spring and Brake Safety Week each fall.
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Drivewyze Inc. announced that Kansas has become the 17th state to adopt the Drivewyze Pre-Clear bypass service, which uses tablets, smartphones and select electronic on-board recorders to provide commercial vehicles with inspection site bypass opportunities.
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Vigillo announced the availability of a comprehensive report on enforcement disparity by county and state. The report, titled, "Comprehensive State Enforcement Statistics," will be available for purchase from Vigillo’s IQLab.
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is testing a new approach to screening new entrants into the business, in hopes of saving money and improving efficiency. In July the agency began a year-long test of a pre-screening process designed to identify high-risk applicants that need an on-site safety review and give low-risk applicants a way to file their information electronically.
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In too many cases we have seen government state laudable goals in its laws while at the same time doing little or in some cases working against those goals from being achieved. This unfortunately appears to be the case with the federal transportation reauthorization act, known as MAP-21, when it comes to freight policy.
Read More →Trucks based in the one of the nation’s smallest states are going to have to comply with a law requiring them to make a big noise.
Read More →Azuga announced the launch of Azuga DriveSafe - a service that implements mobile device policies for fleet customers. The new offering is powered by Cellcontrol. With Azuga DriveSafe, employees’ phones are put in do-not-disturb mode, blocking disruptive emails and texts when vehicles are in motion.
Read More →UDrove released its uDrove Pro and uDrove Prime, which will help fleets, carriers and drivers remain compliant with the MAP-21 hours-of-service rule and the Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration regulation 395.15.
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Early experience with the hours-of-service changes bear out expectations that 24-7 truckload carriers will come under pressure to add personnel, change service levels or both.
Read More →Holiday weekends notoriously show an increase in cargo theft risks for transportation companies, shippers and manufacturers. Historically, FreightWatch has recorded high theft levels, including pharmaceuticals, electronics and several $1 million-plus valued thefts over Labor Day Weekend.
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