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The Trucking Solutions Group call on Tuesday October 11, 2011 will have as our guest speaker, Honorable Chairman Deborah A. P. Hersman of the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board). The call will take place at 3 p.m. EDT. The phone number to call is (712) 432-0075 and the call ID# is...

CVSA’s Operation Safe Driver set for Oct. 16-22 From Land Line magazine You may see extra law enforcement out on the highway in mid-October. The annual Operation Safe Driver campaign put on by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance focuses on trucks and also on four-wheelers driving...

This is a very SCARY website and this is their definition of distracted driving. Distracted driving can be visual, manual or cognitive. Basically, distracted driving is any activity a person engages in while driving a vehicle that has the potential to distract that person from the task of...

This issue appears to be gaining traction: 10/4/2011 Truckinginfo.com Fleet Group Pushes for Cell Phone Ban for Commercial Drivers NAFA Fleet Management Association is urging the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to move quickly to ban the use of mobile devices by commercial...

After several years of considering Trucker Buddy and backing away before signing up we finally bit the bullet. We signed up last year and this summer we were assigned a class near our house. We introduced ourselves via email to the teacher and she sent back a little about her and the class...

Federal board urges cell phone ban for commercial truckers By Mike M. Ahlers, CNN STORY HIGHLIGHTS ·NEW: Federal trucking safety agency expected to rule on hand-held cell phones ·NEW: Hands-free devices do little to increase danger, trucking group says ·NTSB's recommended rule would...

Illinois Bill Requires Posting of Truck Routes and Education on Truck GPS Illinois Public Act 97-0291 Takes Effect January 1, 2012 SKOKIE, Ill., Sept. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has signed legislation aimed at enhancing truck safety in the state by...

Starting September 1st we are required to carry chains in Colorado... That is when I start thinking about preparing for winter. The first thing I do when I see the notice about chains in Colorado is get online and order my Slush Busters The Slushbuster Winter De-Icing Strip - Safer and...

I thought the following was very good information and information I hope none of us ever have to use: Baldwin & Lyons , The Quill August 2011 issue: The Value of a Picture We have all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words. If taken correctly, a picture from the scene of a vehicle...

I perused through this site a little and I was impressed with all the information located in one place: B&K Enterprises

Dan Burges CPP, Senior Director of Intelligence at FreightWatch International will join us on August 17,2011 at 3 p.m. EST. Dan will share the most up to date statistics on freight theft and also give us the benefit of his experience on how to best protect ourselves against freight theft in the...

I thought this was a very good article: OOIDA’s Land line: Georgia trucker arrested in NY for carrying gun without permit By Clarissa Kell-Holland, Land Line staff writer A truck driver from Georgia was arrested in upstate New York recently after admitting he was carrying a 9 mm gun in...

INDUSTRY ASKED TO RANK TOP CONCERNS Arlington, VA – The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI), the trucking industry’s not-for-profit research organization, today launched the 2011 Top Industry Issues Survey. The annual survey, commissioned by the American Trucking Associations...