Risk Management

Every vehicle has its blind spots. Compared to most other vehicles, a transfer truck, multiple yards long with limited sight distance from the cabin, has more than its share. A big truck will have multiple blind spots, at the front, at the rear and on both sides. This creates numerous places another vehicle can be…

No matter how many precautions a driver takes, how much care they take on the road and how many good luck charms you stockpile in the truck cab, eventually one of your trucking company’s trucks will probably be involved in a traffic accident. The various reactions will set in quickly. Anger. Shock. Concern. Financial panic…

If you’re looking for some magic trick that can help you to completely avoid trucking accidents, I’m afraid there’s no such enchantment available, at least not through methods that aren’t hazardous to the immortal soul. But every trucking fleet operator knows they sometimes are unable to sleep at night thinking of ways to avoid trucking…

It’s sadly inevitable, but at some point your trucking fleet is going to be hit with a regulatory fine. It may be a mistake, a clerical error or a simple miscalculation by a harried official having a bad day. It may not. One of your trucks may, by simple error or oversight, run afoul of…

It seems like a simple equation. You have a fleet of trucks. You have a group of drivers. And you have clients who want those drivers to get in those trucks and haul their merchandise from one place to another, for which they will pay you. It’s a can’t-miss business plan, right? Well, sure, in…

Inspection Selection System Have your drivers been getting pulled over for inspections, or waived into weigh stations more frequently over the past 12 months? It’s possible that this uptick of inspections is merely a coincidence, or the adjustment to a new route. The most likely culprit is your Inspection Selection Summary (ISS). This is a…

Negligent Entrustment is probably the single biggest factor in lawsuits against trucking companies. It’s very important to not only understand what Negligent Entrustment is, but how you can protect your company from this common legal strategy. Negligent Entrustment – The entrusting of a dangerous article (motor vehicle) to one who is reckless or too inexperience…

The most important part of your business is not the truck, its not the trailer, and its not even the loads and rates you receive from brokers. Your most important asset is you, because without you there is not a company. The good news is protecting yourself and the future of your company is not…

Does this sound familiar? You’ve had a clean 12-month period in your truck(s), keeping America moving. Zero claims and zero out of service violations. Your agent tells you this is great, and your insurance will probably go down this year. Thirty days before your renewal and you start asking when you’ll have a quote back,…