Safety is not a burden.  It's an opportunity for profit.  Dr. Alex Leslie of ATRI reviews their findings in this year's update of the Operational Costs of Trucking

Your Electronic Control Module (ECM) can provide valuable information to help you defend against a suit after an accident.  Learn what is there and why it is important.

FMCSA enforcement now provides for out-of-service for lack of English proficiency.  There are two steps to the process.

Safety compliance is not achieved by "Just Do It".  It requires communication, internal marketing, employee involvement.  Lisa Battaglia of Battaglia Communications explains why it is important, what you need to do, and how it can ult...

Dr. Alex Leslie presents the results of the ATRI study of the challenges women face in the trucking industry and strategies for how to mitigate these challenges

FMCSA has added four new criteria to the Crash Preventability Program.  Additionally, it has revised the criteria for a number of others. 

Lauren Sheets Jarrell of the American Tort Reform Assn. reveals their 2025 list of "Judicial Hellholes."  Important information for litigation as well as driver recruiting, load pricing, and trip routing.

Holiday driving means risks.  Motive Safety Guru Gary Johnson tells us what their data says about the riskiest times during the holiday season.  

Trucking Insurance is a substantial expense.  You need to ask questions BEFORE you buy.  Questions about claims handling, litigation, choice of counsel,....BEFORE you buy.  

Think twice before you do a post-accident D & A test that is not required by the DOT.

Slogans are not a substitute for safety.  Platitudes are not protection in Court.  Listen to the discussion of how slogans, without a program and culture, don't cut it.  And what you need to do to protect your company.  ...

Lombardi time--being early is the key to effective trucking defense.  

Towing companies are vital to trucking.  They invest in equipment, come out at all hours and in all weather, and keep us rolling.  They are entitled to be fairly compensated.However, there are times when trucking companies are...

An independent witness can be key evidence in any accident case.   Think about it--jurors hear conflicting versions from people they don't know.  Someone who doesn't "have a dog in this fight" can tip the balance.  Your driver ne...

Your driver needs to limit what they say after an accident to a bare minimum.  Rarely will they talk themselves out of trouble.  Frequently, they will talk themselves into it.  "Be Quiet!"  The best advice you can give when ...

The terrible reality is that slavery is alive today.  Souls awash in a sea of servitude.  Trucking is uniquely positioned to do something.  Truckers Against Trafficking is leading the fight.  Kylla Lanier, Deputy Director, s...

Emergency declaration--they are all too common, from COVID to weather.  Tom Bray shares insight as to how to approach them for the benefit and protection of your company.

Lytx does data.  Learn from it.  Lytx 2020 "State of the Data" shares what the data demonstrates as to the "where", "when", and "what" of trucking risks.  Del Lisk, Lytx VP of Safety Services provides insight from the data as to ...

Where DON'T you want to be sued.  "Judicial Hellholes" are the places the American Tort Reform Assn. says are the worst places to have to defend suits.  ATRA's Lauren Sheets Jarrell reveals the recently released list and the "why" of ...

Trucking's most important issues?  ATRI's Top Trucking Issue Survey for 2020, including breakout of motor carrier and driver Top 10 with the insight of ATRI Pres. & COO Rebecca Brewster.  

This video is about Magna-Juror Post-Pandenic-What will we face in the Courtroom in the post-pandemic world?  How has this impacted jurors perspectives?  Dr. Rachel Colangelo, Magna Legal Services' National Managing Director of Jury C...

For trucking, the adverse driving condition exception to driving time is your 4th string quarterback.  It's there if you absolutely need it.  It can get you where you to an end point.  But you don't want to play it often and make...

"Judicial Hellholes" are where you DON'T want to be sued.  But how do these courts get this designation and by whom?  Atty. Lauren Sheets Jarrell of the organization that makes the list, ATRA, tells us what they look for, how they do ...

Dan Horvath, ATA VP of Safety Policy updates the FMCSA regulations as of 10/12/20.  Dan discusses the new hours-of-service changes, the crash preventability program, hair sample drug testing, and the under 21 driver program. 

Nuclear Verdicts have been the top topic in trucking.  I am joined by Rebeca Brewster, President and COO of ATRI, Dr. Bill Kanasky of Courtroom Sciences, Inc., Atty. Robert Tyson of Tyson & Mendes, and Atty. Lauren Sheets Jerrell of AT...