Arnold Safety Blog

Dear Eric: A car stopped short in front of my driver on the interstate. He locked up the brakes, but jacknifed into the median. He did not hit the car. The police were called and filed a report. I went up to the accident scene, and drove the truck and [...]

Dear Eric: Do I have to fill out logbooks?
Answer: The regulations state that you must complete a record of duty status (aka a logbook) every day, unless if you:
1) stay within a 100 air mile radius from your office, and 2) return to the office within 12 hours.
If you do that, your driver may record [...]

Post any and all of your D.O.T. compliance-related questions here. I will do my best to answer them.
Within reason, that is.
For example, if your question is, “what do I have to do to comply with all these rules?”, the answer is, buy my DVD.
Or, if your question is “What’s the girl in the truck [...]

Basically, I need something to keep myself interested in the website. Posting ALL safety/regulatory related posts would probably drive me crazy. So I need a diversion. I will try to keep it around a 70/30 split. Also, the other posts will be in the General, Sports, or Politics categories.
So if you [...]

The DVD training package I am selling on the website is something which will teach you how to comply with the rules in 2-3 hours.
It is designed mostly for motor carriers who are not that familiar with the requirements of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations. The regulations are several hundred pages long. [...]

If you are somewhat new to operating heavy vehicles on the road, you may not be familiar with the alphabet soup of regulatory agencies who will be looking in on you.
The most common name for the regulatory body which enforces the safety regulations on trucks is ‘DOT’. Which is short for Department of Transportation. [...]

Well, looks like Paris Hilton is going to be going to another type of Hilton, for 45 days anyway. For those of you who have missed it, she’s been sentenced to 45 days in the county lockup, for mostly traffic-related violations.
Back in September, 2006, she was driving drunk. She was sentenced to 36 [...]

When DOT conducts its audits, it will generally assign a safety rating to that motor carrier. There are three ratings: Satisfactory, Conditional, and Unsatisfactory.
It is very important that you be assigned the highest rating of Satisfactory, for reasons I will detail in some later post. In determining the ratings, DOT considers not [...]