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That's a question for FMCSA people to answer but I suppose it is because you are a professional who is expected to do your job. This is not Sunday school where you get a gold star for doing what whet you were assigned to do. It is not the military where you get a medal or letter of commendation...

Did you go in and fix it?

Here's a portion of the lamp inventory spreadsheet: EDIT: Ha! Looking at this after posting, "Made By" might be better to say "OEM Source" and "Manufacturer's Number" might be better to say "OEM Number" No matter. It works for us. Develop your lamp inventory chart as you wish. Note that...

Just another thought about the CSA regime. In the spirit of drivers doing our jobs, and in the spirit of CSA compliance, Diane and I keep an inventory of our truck lamps (lights). We have a spreadsheet that lists each lamp on the truck, its manufacturer and its part number. It is our...

We were new in the industry at the time. There was no fine that we knew of, or if there was, we did not pay it, the fleet owner did. He did not challenge the citation or encourage us to. At the time, before CSA, this was not an out of service violation and was viewed as inconsequential. New to...

All true. And there is no question that drivers are expected to do the very same job under CFR49 today as they were expcected to do before CSA was brought into being. Shame on a driver who drives down the road with two lights out. That's basic stuff that should be easy to get right. It is also...

At one time I knew the title and as time passed, I forgot it. So when I said in a recent post that I do not know his title, it was true. That brings us back to the main point. With FedEx Custom Critical taking proactive and additional safety steps such as adding a Field Safety Liason and moving...

Paullud raises a topic that is not plesant to contemplate. As a married-couple team, it would be easy for the surviving member to deal with the truck and co-driver remains if one team member dies. But that assumes the surviving member is healthy and alive, which might not be the case in a...

Before CSA went into effect, did FedEx Custom Critical have a need to clean up? Was it not already a good safety company? But now, under CSA, this carrier has "earned" two golden triangles, symbols on the FMCSA web site that shippers are increasingly using as warnings to avoid golden-triangle...

When you say "going up" do you mean improving as with lower SMS numbers among carrriers overall, or do you mean higher SMS numbers among carriers overall? I am beginning to put more thought into the CSA/SMS rating system and the answer to your question depends on what you mean by "going up."

Welcome to EO, Monty. Take time to read a year's worth of previous posts and feel free to ask whatever questions you may have about expediting. You will find expediters to be a friendly group, happy to advise newbies like you.

I just finished reading the Todd Dills, Overdrive magazine articles: Losing the golden triangle: More proof shippers (mis)use CSA and Oral arguments set for CSA suit. I urge those expediters who still think CSA is a good idea to revisit your opinion. Major expedite carriers have been negatively...

The man said nothing about checking your tire chains but his forecast sure got me thinking about it. Way to go, Frankie!

Where it is being done now (off road applications like mines where licensing is not an issue), union jobs are being eliminated and it is being done to save money and increase profits. Technology eliminated union jobs in the auto plants too when robots replaced human welders. As with any...

Hackers are everywhere, attacking online banking, medical devices, even military drones. Yet technology marches on. If you vote no for programmed machines, you will soon be doing it with an electronic device, maybe even online. Technology is moving very fast, leaving many disrupted lives and...

Dang, Bruno! This is the second truck of yours that has been consumed by fire in a year or two, isn't it? That sucks. Good advice on the fire extinguishers.

It would keep you safe from a trucking accident or injury and give you more time to hunt and fish.

The Dennis Berman Wall Street Journal article mentioned in pearlman's original post is a subscription only piece with the title, "Daddy, What Was a Truck Driver? Over the Next Two Decades the Machines Themselves Will Take Over the Driving." I found a related article for free, published by...

In January 2011, Expedite NOW featured a piece a on a similar topic: Imagine a Future without Trucks Excerpt: Every trucker knows that without trucks America stops. It’s not just a slogan. To those of us who drive the trucks and physically deliver the goods that keep America running, the...

Having done a few restarts under the new rules, I'm not sure Diane and I have it figured out yet. We know what the rules are but orienting an on-again, off-again expediting schedule to them is less simple than it used to be. We find ourselves now thinking about 5 a.m. in ways we did not before...