OSHA Enforcement and Penalties Newsletter – October 2015 Construction Companies Face $2 Million in Fines for Knowingly Exposing Workers to Asbestos Two Illinois-based companies face a total [...]
Risk Insights – Transportation & Warehousing Keeping Your Driver Fitness BASIC Scores Low The Driver Fitness Compliance Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Category (BASIC) is one [...]
Southwest Risk Management Trucking News CVSA Says Roadcheck Out of Service Rate Declines to Historic Low Out-of-service rates for both trucks and buses and drivers dropped to historic lows for [...]
P & C Profile – Trucking Did You Know? Cyber attacks are a growing concern in all commercial sectors, but the trucking industry faces a particularly costly cyber threat: telematics [...]
Risk Insights – Trucking Unauthorized Passengers – Know Who’s Riding Along With trips that last from a few days to weeks at a time, the average truck driver spends a considerable amount of [...]
Guess Which Small Business Industry Is Growing the Fastest? Growth in manufacturing and consumer spending has helped this unglamorous industry prosper. Those big rigs you see rumbling down the [...]
Risk Insights – Transportation & Warehousing 2015 Top 10 Vehicle Violations A roadside inspection is an examination of individual commercial motor vehicles and drivers by a Motor [...]
Trucking News 2015 Annual Brake Safety Week Inspection The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) announced that this year’s Brake Safety Week inspection blitz will be from September 6-12, [...]
Playing It Safe – Trucking CSA Red Flag Violations Know what they are and avoid them When investigating a motor carrier, a Safety Investigator (SI) looks at driver history for egregious [...]
SW Risk Trucking News FMCSA Moves To Tie Carrier Ratings To CSA The FMCSA has proposed a plan that would link carrier safety fitness determinations to the automated CSA safety rankings in various [...]