Legendary basketball coach John Wooden began each season by teaching his players how to tie their shoes. No, there was not some arcane “secret of the shoestrings” which led Wooden’s UCLA squads to ten ...

I recently ran across a great article from ATBS called The Importance of the Pre-Trip Truck Inspection. In my opinion, the article was spot on in enumerating the reasons why drivers should perform ...

When people think about compromised fleet safety, they often imagine dangerous driving behaviors like speeding or distracted driving. What drivers do behind the wheel, however, is only one part of a ...

Pre-trip inspections are one the first things listed in the Commercial Driver License manual, hammering home the importance of the process. However, with fleet managers outnumbered by tractors and ...

This is the first of a multi-part series on how drivers and the maintenance department work together to increase uptime. High-quality pre- and post-trip inspections can be the difference in addressing ...

Now I gotta pause here a sec and admit that I learned about the importance of a pre-trip inspection the hard way. Way back in my early days of wheeling I jumped into my old 1977 International Scout ...

Unique Truck Equipment has teamed up with Justintime Tools to provide an effective way to check many of vehicle standards required in pre-trip inspection. Unique's Pocket Inspector is can easily ...

After nearly 30 years as a professional truck driver, Denver FedEx freight driver Brian Walton tied for the national title as champion of the Flatbed class, Straight Truck division, of the American ...

TA-Petro is hosting a Pre-Trip Inspection Challenge that gives Great American Trucking Show attendees a chance to compete for prizes by finding as many problems with a truck as possible during a ...

How good are your inspection skills? You can test them against others through Saturday morning at the Great American Trucking Show in Dallas. TA/Petro, in a partnership with FedEx Custom Critical, is ...

When Tom Bray was in charge of safety at a motor carrier, a frustration was seeing drivers leave the yard with an easily correctable problem that could result in a violation or worse — but should have ...