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The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s International Roadcheck Starts Today – Are You Ready?
This year the CVSA will focus extra attention on two specific driver and vehicle categories – hours-of-service and vehicle lighting during its annual inspection event that is conducted across all of North America. In 2020, lighting violations or “lamps inoperable,” was the No. 1 vehicle violation, accounting for 12.24% of all vehicle violations according to the Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration…
How to Adjust Your KPIs For the New ELD Mandate
The Canadian trucking industry will face some fundamental changes with the Canadian Electronic Logging Device (ELD) mandate. It’s important for trucking companies to understand how the regulations will impact the business and capitalize on them. The new mandate will require most commercial trucks to have a compliant ELD installed starting June 12, 2021, with a progressive…
How Tech Add-Ons Will Help You Get the Most Out of the Canadian ELD Mandate
Written by: Sara Steele, Product Manager & Director of Compliance, Drivewyze Inc. This is the 3rd post in our series around the Canadian ELD Mandate. Follow these links to read How the Canadian ELD Mandate Will Make Your Fleet more Efficient & How the Canadian ELD Mandate Will Make Every Drivers Job Easier. Fleet managers, owner-operators, and drivers alike are constantly…
How the Canadian ELD Mandate Will Make Every Driver’s Job Easier
Written by: Sara Steele, Product Manager & Director of Compliance, Drivewyze Inc. This is the 2nd post in our series around the Canadian ELD Mandate. You can find our first post here – How the Canadian ELD Mandate Will Make Your Fleet more Efficient. Canadian truck drivers have to juggle many stresses on the job. From complying with Hours of Service (HoS) to…
How the Canadian ELD Mandate Will Make Your Fleet More Efficient
With the Canadian ELD mandate right around the corner, trucking companies are preparing to implement new hardware and procedures. While these changes might seem disruptive, the ELD mandate is actually an opportunity for fleets to become far more efficient. Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs) help drivers track their Hours of Service (HoS) to avoid fatigue and improve safety…
Highs and Lows: What to Expect in 2021
After market conditions left the trucking industry looking down the barrel of near-record lows at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, the industry made a comeback for the ages in the latter part of the year. Sales and freight rates soared to near-record highs, essentially making up for losses early on in the…
Top 4 Things to Look for When Choosing a Bypass Service
Every day, weigh stations audit vehicles from thousands of carriers to make highways safer for all drivers. However, inspections can be costly for fleets. Drivers have to pull in and wait in long lines to be inspected, often on multiple occasions along a single route. It wastes valuable time and money for vehicles with no…
Getting the Green Light: How to Get Bypasses Regardless of Your Safety Scores
Safety scores are essential to every carrier’s operations. They communicate to law enforcement a fleet’s overall commitment to safety by combining relevant data, from crash reports to inspection results. They are also screened by transponder-less weigh station bypass technologies to determine if a truck should be pulled in for inspection. This often creates a misunderstanding…
The Most Common Misconceptions About Bypass Programs
Electronic weigh station bypass technologies have been evolving steadily over the past few decades. Since Drivewyze’s transponder-less bypass technology debuted in the US in 2012, bypass programs have developed even further to make truck inspections easier for everyone involved. Today, bypass programs help safe vehicles avoid unnecessary inspections through mobile integration and screening techniques that can weigh the truck…
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