Arnold Safety Blog

God knows I am.  I have watched enough Little League baseball, WNBA (ok, I don’t really watch that, but if I see it when I’m flipping through the channels…. that’s still too much), drag racing, golf, tennis and reality cooking shows to last me…. until next summer.  But now it is TIME!  Break out the football!!!!  For [...]

From News 13 in Central Florida, August 19, 2007:  “A tip from a driver led to the arrest of a truck driver accused in a road rage incident in Volusia County.  Troopers got a call Saturday that a semi driver had forced a car off Interstate 4 between DeLand and Daytona Beach.  The caller said [...]

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070814/LOCAL/708140438
Robert Spencer of Michigan, was sentenced to 4 years in jail for causing a crash which killed 5 people in 2006.  Last year, Spencer lost control of his truck near Fort Wayne, IN, and collided with a van carrying college students, killing five of them.  Spencer admitted that he had driven over the hours of service limits.
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If you are a carrier or shipper of placardable amounts of hazardous materials, you need, among numerous other requirements, a security plan. This is a written document where you outline how risky you believe your HazMat operation is, and the measures you have in place to prevent terrorists from stealing or sabotaging your HazMat. [...]

When you are drug testing your drivers, occasionally a driver will fail the test, also known as testing positive. While this may seem like common-sense to some, if a driver tests positive, you must remove him from duty. Immediately. No ifs, ands, or buts. That means getting on the two-way radio, [...]