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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

REFERENCES: Emergency Vehicle Operator Student Manual, University of Maryland Emergency Vehicle Driver In-Service Student Manual, University of Maryland, Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute. (1998).

Because most fleets conduct robust brake maintenance, brake issues are more likely to be discovered by a roadside inspector than at any other time, resulting in totally inconvenient, largely ...

It takes a robust braking system to bring 80,000 lb. (36,000 kg) of moving tractor-trailer to a halt. And half of that system sits on a trailer, about 45 feet (about 13.5 meters) behind the driver.

Every year thousands of trucks are pulled off the road during the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s Brake Safety Week by inspectors across the U.S., Canada and Mexico, who in 2023 conducted 18,875 ...

The following was published in CCJ's Air Brake Book, 11th edition, sponsored by Silverback HD. CCJ's Air Brake Book is a complementary industry resource, courtesy of our partnership with Silverback HD ...