Safe drivers choose to adopt a calm, professional attitude whenever they sit behind the wheel, but that decision requires them to measure their state of mind as surely as they measure brake stroke ...

A common misconception about driver vehicle inspection reports for truckers and other commercial drivers is that one is required at every pre-trip inspection. How often must a walk-around pre-trip ...

Stop Drivers from ‘Pencil-Whipping’ Inspections. Every driver is trained when they're getting their commercial driver’s license to do pre-trip and post-trip inspections.

MYTH 3: A driver must record at least 15 minutes on his log for a pre-trip inspection. This is a whopper of a tale told by truck stop lawyers. 49 C.F.R. 395.8 requires all time recorded on a log ...

What drivers do behind the wheel, however, is only one part of a much broader safety equation. Regular fleet maintenance and thorough pre-trip inspections are cornerstones of safer fleets – and ...

The sessions will focus on pre-trip inspections, the Commercial Transport Act, truck routes, cargo securement, transporting live loads, vehicle defects, weight regulations and more, with the goal of ...

CDL testing in Florida could get easier if regulators grant an exemption to driver instructors. The post Florida seeks help for truckers failing pre-trip inspections appeared first on FreightWaves.

Tucker Bubacz and Joshua Hewitt fill out their pre-trip inspection sheets outside Williamsport High School in Williamsport, Md., on Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. Amanda Berg for NPR hide caption ...

For required pre-trip school bus inspections, more than 80% of the sampled documentation was found to be deficient. Though school bus inspections are required annually, Michigan State Police ...

A semi-truck driver reported that during a pre-trip inspection, he discovered that his trailer had been broken into and newly released Nintendo Switch 2 consoles were missing.