Arnold Safety Blog

Now the Big E remembers why he gave up gambling.  He’s not particularly good at it.  Another 1-2 week puts us at 3-6 for the year.  Well, look at the bright side:  if you just take the opposite of whatever we recommend, you should be doing pretty well.  Nevertheless, we are cautiously optimistic that the [...]

There is nothing DOT takes more seriously than drug and alcohol testing.  This is largely because it’s easy for them to enforce, and there’s nothing a government official loves more than easy.  Nevertheless, the most serious violation you can commit is using a driver who has failed a drug test.  If a driver fails a random drug test, [...]

My marketing guy says I should keep putting images on the blog which will make it more appealing to the eye, and keep people interested.  Well, I’m getting tired of putting up the same images of truck wreck, truck fire, truck wreck, etc.  So here’s a flying dog!  What could be more appealing and fun [...]

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The proposed bill would limit truck speeds to 60 MPH, even where the speed limits are 65, and force trucks to use the right lane only.  Good Lord.  Another stupid politician.  This proposal will do nothing except cause more accidents.  All you have to do is drive through a state like Ohio, where they have [...]

Well, thank God nobody reads this thing, otherwise they’d see that I’m 2-4 in football picks to start the season.  For some reason, everything is in a foreign language to the Big E right now.  Press 1 for winning football picks.  Well, we try again this week:
MICHIGAN +2.5 over penn state
One of the main reasons [...]

Well, it was a slow start in Week 1, as we got off to a boring 1-2 start.  None of these are BEST BET games, but still, you’d rather be right than wrong.  On the Michigan game, we could not have been more wrong.  As soon as the Big E watched 5 minutes of the [...]

The update is:  there is no update.  Yes, the deadline for FMCSA to respond to the court is this Friday, but they have been completely silent.  I guess this means they will not offer any sort of rebuttal or answer to the court, which means on Friday there is no more 11 hour rule, or [...]

And loses.  This happened in Hammond, IN, on Saturday September 1, 2007.
http://nwitimes.videos.vmixcore.com/p/video?id=1504769
Check out this video, from a parking lot surveillance camera.  A woman in a mini-van, coming upon a railroad crossing just blocked by an eastbound train.  She races into an adjacent parking lot, streaks the length of the parking lot, and races across the [...]

Opening Weekend
WHOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s football season!!!  The season has just started and already we’ve got fireworks.  In the colleges, football history was made last week when #5 Michigan was defeated at home by Division 1-AA Appalachian State.  Kudos to Appy State, although this is not the mega-upset the pinhead-media is making it out to be.  Appy State [...]

Commercial Motor Vehicles, particularly tractor-trailers, have hundreds of moving parts.  Like anything mechanical, they require constant maintenance to remain in safe operating condition.  Daily inspections conducted by the driver are large part of any maintenance program.
 
The safety regulations require that both a pre-trip and post-trip inspection be done on commercial motor vehicles each day they [...]