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Trucking news to related to fleet safety programs that keep drivers, technicians, other employees, and the general public safe. From complying with drivers’ hours of service rules to research and collision-prevention efforts, a well-thought out and executed safety plan can help fleets reduce risk and their overall operating costs.

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DOT to remove oral drug testing requirement as 'factual impossibility'

Jeremy Wolfe

Dec. 13, 2024

Motive launches 24/7 Roadside Assistance to enhance driver safety and efficiency

Technology

Motive adds new Roadside Assistance feature

Jenna Hume

Dec. 12, 2024

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Data reveals a rising trend in fatal accidents involving trucks

Jade Brasher

Dec. 10, 2024

Accidents that result in fatalities have increasingly involved large trucks—with an increase of nearly 50% over the last 10 years—according to NHTSA. Here’s a breakdown of the...

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To prebuy or not to prebuy. That is the big trucking question.

Jim Park

Dec. 13, 2024

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How to Christmas shop at a truck stop

Jenna Hume

Dec. 13, 2024

Since its inception in 2012, ATG’s Haulin’ 4 Hunger program has provided over 80,000 meals and counting to help those in need.

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Five Good Things: Donating time, money, and food

Jenna Hume

Dec. 13, 2024

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Fontana: A few simple steps for a safer fleet

Gino Fontana

Dec. 3, 2024

Safely operating your fleet doesn’t just happen. It takes a commitment from management and driver engagement to make it happen.

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CVSA announces dates for 2025 Human Trafficking Awareness Initiative

FleetOwner Staff

Dec. 3, 2024

CVSA’s annual five-day human trafficking awareness, outreach, identification, and prevention initiative educates commercial motor vehicle drivers, motor carriers, law enforcement...

Three studies show the worst states to drive in, and Rhode Island ranks in the top five in two of those studies.

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Three studies find the states where driving is considered the riskiest

Jade Brasher

Dec. 2, 2024

Carriers and drivers, beware. Studies have ranked states on their roads’ ease of navigation, road quality, and fatality rates. Rhode Island makes the dubious top five on two lists...

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Truckstop introduces its Risk Factors Advanced

FleetOwner Staff

Nov. 25, 2024

Risk Factors Essentials combines Truckstop’s proprietary, licensed, and public data to equip brokers with information to help combat fraud and mitigate risk—right into their workflow...