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How carriers can identify log falsification

Hours-of-service violations are fairly easy to detect on a driver’s log. After all, ELDs are designed to keep track of drivers’ hours and will flag instances when they exceeded their allotted driving time.

However, just because the ELD system did not detect an HOS violation doesn’t mean it’s not there, concealed by log falsification.

The issue of log falsification isn’t new. It was prevalent both in the days of paper logs and still today in the ELD era. What has changed is the way drivers falsify...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-carriers-can-identify-log-falsification

Policy vs. guidance: Why it matters to know the difference

There’s no getting around one thing: Every motor carrier needs safety policies. 

If those policies have ever backfired at your company, as they inevitably have at some point for many, have you considered that it shouldn’t be a policy at all?

“You have those occasions where the policy [gets] broken, but you never have any other issue with this driver. Do [you] have to fire him? According to the policy, yes, you do,” said Brian Runnels, VP of safety  at Reliance Partners, a trucking insurance and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/policy-vs-guidance-why-it-matters-to-know-the-difference

Risk doesn’t disappear just because the truck never leaves the yard

Outrider founder and CEO Andrew Smith believes the future of efficient yard operations involves the use of autonomous yard tractors. Sometimes called terminal tractors, yard jockeys, hostlers and shuttle drivers, these workhorses of efficiency number more than 50,000 in the U.S., moving trailers from one part of the yard or distribution center to another, from dock doors to locations where a carrier can pick it up.

Outrider has landed $53 million in funding to build its autonomous yard tractor,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/risk-doesnt-disappear-just-because-the-truck-never-leaves-the-yard

5 New Year’s resolutions to reduce your fleet risk in 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic saw the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issue a series of rules exemptions in 2020, but at no point was the safe operation of commercial motor vehicles affected. As 2021 quickly approaches, and with the possible end of the pandemic in sight as vaccines reach the market, trucking carriers could see a return to normal operations at some point.

Safety, though, remains the primary objective for all operations. As waivers to existing rules expire, and new regulations...

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