Crash Prevention: Are You Proactive or Reactive?
When a vehicle crash occurs, the first questions a trucking company will likely ask are: What happened? Is everyone okay? Which party was at fault? Unfortunately, ...
11/01/18
Identifying Fall Driving Hazards
The fall season presents many unique hazards that truck drivers should be on the lookout for. Avoiding potential losses requires drivers to recognize the hazards ...
10/24/18
Opening/Closing Trailer Doors
Opening and closing trailer doors are two of the leading causes of work-related injuries for truck drivers. Read the information below, and ask yourself if there ...
10/17/18
Backing
Backing up a truck and hitting a stationary object is one of the most frequent causes of a loss for a trucking company. Read the information below on how to ...
10/09/18
Fall Driving Hazards
Fall is quickly approaching, and with it comes seasonal hazards that can lead to animal strikes, loss of control crashes, and other losses. Dispatchers, driver ...
10/02/18
Tractor-Trailer Fires: What Do You Do?
Tractor-trailer fires can result in devastating losses destroying trucks, trailers, and cargo. Fires can be the result of tires/brakes heating up, loss of axle ...
09/25/18
Providing a Workplace Free of Known Hazards
Motor carriers are in a hazardous industry and face four types of loss exposures: financial, property, liability, and personnel. Financial exposures include ...
09/18/18
Speed Management
Properly managing the truck’s speed requires skill and good judgment. Failure to do so could have tragic consequences. To avoid this, drivers must recognize the ...
09/11/18
Use Road Tests to Measure Driver Quality
Motor carriers put a lot of faith in drivers. They are entrusted with very expensive equipment, valuable cargo, and customer trust. With all of this at stake, ...
09/04/18
Skin Protection
The health of your skin is vital to your overall health. Skin, the body’s largest organ, makes vitamin D when exposed to the sun. Vitamin D is important to your ...
08/21/18