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Second Chances: How to Upgrade Your Safety Rating

An unfavorable compliance review can result in a public relations nightmare, high insurance rates, and difficulty in attracting quality drivers. But motor carriers have an opportunity to ask for a do-over.

Instructional Technologies, SambaSafety Ink Training Partnership

Instructional Technologies and SambaSafety announced a partnership the companies say will let customers evaluate driver performance, identify safety issues, and quickly limit risk through targeted training.

Bendix Acquires R.H. Sheppard frm Wabco

WABCO Holdings Inc., has entered into a definitive agreement to sell R.H. Sheppard Co., Inc. to Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC for $149.5 million.

Embrace Change and Continuously Improve Your Fleet

In today’s business world, fleets must continuously improve or risk affecting their companies’ bottom line. But with improvement comes inevitable change — to manage both fleets need to tap an important ally: their fleet management company.

FMCSA Extends Entry-Level Driver Training Rule Compliance Date

The new entry-level driver training rule, originally scheduled to go into effect Feb. 7, now will have to wait another two years because the government needs more time to finish the registry of approved training providers.

Volvo Celebrates 60 Years of 3-Point Seat Belts by Encouraging Truck Drivers to Buckle Up

Three-point seat belts have saved over a million lives since their introduction. Volvo is celebrating the design's 60th anniversary by stressing to truck drivers the safety benefit of belting up..

Transportation Incidents Top Cause of Fatal Work Injuries

Inspired by the labor shortages in the transport and construction industries, Teletrac Navman assessed if the relationship between compensation and the danger of the jobs within those fields could potentially be affecting the size of the recruitment pool.

Safe Fleet Forms Commercial Vehicle Division

Safe Fleet has combined two business units, Truck & Trailer and Work Truck, into a unified Commercial Vehicle (CV) division.

Fleet Safety Conference Session on Vehicle Tech Brings Together Agencies and Attendees

At this year’s Fleet Safety Conference, which has moved to Las Vegas, representatives from the FMCSA, the NTSB, and vehicle testing consultants AMCI Global will discuss the current and upcoming vehicle safety technologies and how they could reduce fatal and non-fatal crashes.

EDGE3 Launches Distracted Driving Analytics

EDGE3 Technologies announced the commercial launch of a new platform: CloudDETECT, which identifies unsafe behaviors so that fleet managers may proactively improve overall fleet safety.