The closing keynote panels for both the Fleet Forward and Fleet Safety Conferences — along with the overall agenda — are driven by fleet managers’ perspectives and expertise.
Preventing distracted driving should be a priority from the top down in any fleet. Safety leaders must rely on building relationships and coaching drivers rather than just depending on technology and policy enforcement. In short, fleets must get buy-in from drivers.
Strict driver distraction policies, cellphone blockers, and zero-tolerance mandates will not solve the larger issues of distracted driving in commercial trucking. There are other steps fleets can take first.
"Safety is everybody's responsibility," says Joshua Moore, an HDT 2023 Emerging Leader.
Speeding continues to be the top warning handed out to both commercial vehicle drivers and passenger drivers during CVSA’s Operation Safe Driver Week. But among CMV drivers, when it comes to actual tickets, speeding dropped to number 2 on the list this year.
In September 2023, recalls were announced on vehicles from Mack Trucks, Wabash, and Paccar.
If innovation is a state of mind, then these transportation leaders have their heads in the game, says Deborah Lockridge in this commentary.
An update on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's significant rulemakings briefly included a mandatory speed limiter information, which has been pulled back.
In recent years, insurers have begun tapping into technology to better understand broad risk profiles of the trucking industry as well as risk associated with their insured fleets. For fleets, insurtech now can lead to reductions in insurance costs.
The Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration has reinstated KSK Group’s ELD to the list of registered Electronic Logging Devices.
California Gov. Gavin Newsome vetoed Assembly Bill 316, which would have banned driverless autonomous trucks over 10,000 pounds from California roads.
ERoad, a fleet performance management company, announced product enhancements designed to help fleets improve driver safety, streamline operations, and bolster supply chain visibility.
J.J. Keller now offers a video review service that allows fleets to have an expert manage the reviews of dash cam videos.
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Bison Transport is arguably the safest large fleet in North America. It hasn't always been that way. Garth Pitzel talks about the company's journey from compliant-but-not-safe to winning TCA's top safety award 13 years in a row, in this episode of HDT Talks Trucking.
While the DataQ system allows fleet safety managers to address reported safety and compliance data they believe is incorrect or incomplete, requests for reconsideration of a denial currently may be decided by the same person who denied it in the first place.
When commercial vehicle drivers are instructed to pull into a weigh station, what should they expect? These photos take you inside a Georgia weigh station. Learn how weight inspectors and officers work together to make trucking safer.
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