Situational Awareness And Why It's Important
What is situational awareness? Situational awareness involves your ability to assess what is happening around you and determine if there is a threat your health ...
06/10/21
The Financial Impact of Distracted Driving
Distractions are a high-risk exposure that motor carriers cannot overlook. Incidents like a distracted employee slipping in the shop or losing focus while driving ...
03/29/21
How to Avoid Pattern Driving
Every truck driver has a pattern to the way he or she drives. These patterns, or habits, can be good or bad, or more precisely, safe or unsafe. A driver who ...
02/05/21
Preventing Lane Change Crashes
Lane change crashes may be prevented if drivers recognize the hazards that increase the likelihood of a lane change crash and take defensive measures to avoid a ...
01/25/21
How Can You Prevent Distracted Driving?
Distracted driving can be deadly. In fact, according to the National Safety Council, 2,800 people in the U.S. died in distraction-related crashes in 2018 alone – ...
10/21/20
Driving with Sun Glare: Tips to Stay Safe
Cooler temperatures and changing foliage are all signals that fall is rapidly approaching; however, there is one other sign you may also have encountered too, and ...
10/06/20
Re-Emphasize Rear-End Crash Prevention
Preventing large truck crashes has been and always will be a topic of discussion motor carriers have with their drivers. Large truck crashes cost the ...
07/24/20
FMCSA's New Crash Preventability Determination Program
Contributed by Dave Osiecki, Scopelitis Transportation Consulting LLC Since the inception of the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program at the Federal ...
07/17/20
Preventing Crashes with Stationary Objects
Hitting stationary objects are preventable crashes. The key to preventing such accidents is to recognize the hazards that can lead to a collision with a ...
04/08/20
Preventing Accidents When Backing Up
One out of four vehicle accidents can be attributed to poor backing techniques, according to the National Safety Council. The Council also found that backing ...
03/02/20