The shop door rumbles open before sunrise, cold air sweeping across the dispatch desk and the smell of brine lingering from last night’s pre-treat. Tablets light up on the wall, radios crackle,
It is early morning in a quiet fleet yard. The air smells faintly of diesel, and the sky still holds the last shade of night. Drivers climb into their trucks, flipping switches
At a construction site in Houston last summer, a foreman left his truck idling while finishing phone calls. Ten minutes later, the air was thick with heat shimmer and diesel haze, and
When a small regional carrier in Kansas failed to run a pre-employment Clearinghouse query, it didn't take long for the mistake to surface. The driver, flagged for an earlier substance violation, was
If you run trucks through Mississippi, you’re facing a highway risk nearly five times higher than if your routes run through Massachusetts. That’s not an exaggeration, it’s straight from the state-by-state fatality
Traffic volumes in the United States surged to a record 3.3 trillion miles driven in 2024. At first glance that might seem like good news for business, but for fleet managers it
Picture the early morning at a truck yard—the mix of diesel and coffee in the air, drivers ribbing each other about last night’s football game, swapping stories about near misses. Then someone
Near Collision Data: Turning Close Calls into Safety Wins It’s not often that a 47% jump in anything gets framed as good news—especially when it’s related to near collisions in utility fleets.
FMCSA Drops Speed Limiter Rule - What’s Next for Your Fleet? Honestly, it seemed like a done deal. After months, no, make that years of debates, discussions, and preparations, the FMCSA officially
The post-pandemic rebound in traffic volumes has delivered a challenging new reality for fleet managers and safety directors: a significant jump in collision rates. According to CarrierManagement, fleet collision rates surged 24%
