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Ask our experts: Common questions on ELD compliance

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ELD Mandate

Although the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) Mandate went into effect last year, we’re still seeing that many fleets and individual drivers have questions about the regulation. To assist those still unsure of what’s required to meet compliance, we turned to our compliance expert, Tom Cuthbertson,...

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Operation Safe Driver Week: This year, speeding is in the spotlight

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It’s that time of year again. July 14 marks the start of Operation Safe Driver Week, organized by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA). Every...

4 Tips to reduce weather-related crashes

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According to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), more than 5.8 million vehicle crashes occur every year. Of those, approximately 21 percent,...

Drivers and carriers: What keeps you up at night?

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Heading into the new year, what are the biggest issues on the minds of truck drivers and carriers? The American Transportation Research Institute...

Understanding the risks of impaired driving and promoting fleet safety this holiday weekend

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According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), close to 10,000 deaths from alcohol-related crashes occur in the U.S. alone...

4 reasons to install in-cab video — from a defense attorney with a CDL

Doug Marcello
In-cab cameras are the ultimate accident response. Period. It gives you a lay-down hand. In today’s “YouTube” world, video is the end-all proof....

AI, machine learning, and more efficient routing

Phil Friedman
Since the early 1800s, business people and mathematicians have been trying to solve the “Traveling Salesman Problem.” Simply put, the “TSP” asks the...

How Machine Learning is Transforming the Industry in 2018 and Beyond

Ramprasad Renganathan
Technology is having a huge impact on the trucking industry, and has been for years. Omnitracs and other organizations are busily studying more ways...

Brake Safety Day puts a stop to bad brakes

It’s time to put the brakes on bad brakes. That, in a nutshell, is the message behind the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s Brake Safety Day, which...

Omnitracs’ Transportation Trends Webinar Series: The Accident Severity Model and How Driver Fatigue Impacts Safety

With so much being reported in the news about ELDs and Hours of Service (HOS), many are familiar the compliance and productivity benefits that come...

Checking Your PSP Report – A How-To on Driver CSA Scores

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Several drivers came to us this past month in search of a helping hand—and their common request was a simple one: How do I get my hands on my driver...

Your CSA Score – How To Check It (And Why You Should!)

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Today, there are 512,180 carriers actively operating in the United States, and 55,000 of them are over the FMCSA’s intervention threshold. And that’s...

What Hard Braking Means to Your Business

Have you looked at how slamming on a truck's brakes could impact your business? Hard-brake events are a leading indicator of potentially unsafe...