Jan. 6, 2020 is a big day. It’s when motor carriers are required to begin using the FMCSA’s Commercial Driver’s License Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse to screen new drivers during pre-hire and all drivers annually. Why the new procedures? The FMCSA seeks to eliminate almost 900 crashes annually resulting in $196 million in total benefit […]
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Thank you to all of you who submitted your great ideas for celebrating National Truck Driver Appreciation Week! We had a tough job choosing the winners, but here are the top 3 winners along with some of the other top ideas. Driver Appreciation Week Contest Winners! $250 Amazon gift card: Tamara Mladeno, Arctic Transportation We
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How do the DRIVE-Safe Act, the Under 21 Military CDL Pilot Program, the Entry-Level Driver Training Rule, and CDL Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse affect your fleet? In Part I of this blog, we reviewed two of the key driver safety laws coming your way: the DRIVE-Safe Act and the Under 21 Military CDL Pilot Program.
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It’s not often that a lifesaving opportunity arises in the GPS Fleet Management arena, but we’re glad that when it did, not once but twice, FleetLocate rose to the occasion. We heard from Byron Van Zandt of Tejas Distributors recently, and he had two interesting stories to tell. Locating a driver in crisis First, he
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Driver safety is changing. How will the DRIVE-Safe Act, the Under 21 Military CDL Pilot Program, the Entry-Level Driver Training Rule, and CDL Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse affect your fleet? There is a tug-of-war going on in Congress. Our congresspeople and government agencies are attempting to walk a delicate balance between the shortage of quality
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Driver Appreciation Week 2019 is coming soon! The Spireon family would like to give a big thanks to the 7 million professional drivers that support our country with their hard work and dedication. From delivering retail and manufactured goods, supplies to natural disaster areas, and even Spireon products across the country, they provide for all
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Let’s use the lessons learned from last year to make smarter decisions going forward. Even though demand tapered off in the first quarter, 2019 will remain a challenging year for carriers struggling to meet the freight demand of a growing economy. Rather than throwing money at the problem and investing in trailers they may or
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With the driver shortage and driver turnover hitting the industry hard, improving your driver recruitment process is more important than ever. But how do you go from average (or worse) to outstanding? Here are some practical driver recruitment tips from The Undercover Trucker, Kelly Anderson, provided in a webinar sponsored by Spireon. First and foremost,
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Hours of service: Is there any hope for flexibility? We may find out this Friday. The build-up, layered implementation, and execution of the ELD mandate has come and gone, but not without its fair share of consternation. The US Department of Transportation, all the way from Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao down to the Federal
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One of the keys to driver retention that is too often missed is to make drivers feel important—because they are. If your new drivers have made it through orientation, how do you keep them happy from here on out? Too often, drivers report feeling like numbers—nameless “steering-wheel holders.” And, when they feel that way, the
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