Arnold Safety Blog

Tornado Bus Company, Inc., of Dallas, TX, which has about 50-60 buses, was placed Out of Service by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) on December 27, 2007, because it is an “imminent hazard” on the highways. Here is the link to the Out of Service Order itself.
Tornado was involved in an accident [...]

Well, I kind of gave up on predicting games every week, as 1) it was taking too much time, and 2) I was getting all my predictions wrong.
However, we have a little free time here around the holidays, so we’ll throw some things down on paper, just for discussion.
Holiday Bowl:  Arizona State +2.5 over Texas…  [...]

Do you want the powers that be to hear what you have to say? Then say it!!! Now!
FMCSA is accepting comments on their interim rules… which in case you missed it, are the current rules, which have been in place since 2004.
Not only are you sounding off to FMCSA, you are also sounding [...]

Dimitrios Tseperkas crashes into stopped traffic on the NJ Turnpike, August 14, 2006.
Well, this is the flip side of what I keep preaching.  I keep saying, “if you get in a big crash, and you don’t have your ducks in a row, you’ll go to jail”.  Well, not always.  August 14, 2006, Dimitrios Tseperkas slams [...]

R. Kelly’s tour buses are sidelined due to no logbooks.
According to the article, rapper R. Kelly was traveling through Utah on Tuesday December 18, heading to Chicago from Sacremento, where he had performed on Sunday. He was traveling in a convoy of 4 tour buses. The Utah Highway Patrol clocked the lead bus [...]

Trucker Charged in July, 2006 Harrisburg Crash 
In July, 2006, a tractor-trailer came upon stopped traffic on Route 581 in Camp Hill, PA.  He was unable to stop, crashed into the traffic ahead on a bridge.  The truck pushed a 1996 Lincoln about 100 feet, and then launched it over the 3 foot high side of [...]

I taught another safety class for my construction company in Cincinnati this week. One of the best questions I got was, “well what if I drive beyond the 14 hour rule, how much trouble am I in?” If you get stopped by the police while you are over hours, you’ll be placed Out [...]

This week, FMCSA issued an interim Final Rule on Hours of Service, which is…. the same as the existing rules!  What is this all about?  To recap:  FMCSA changed the hours of service rules in 2004 at the direction of Congress.  They were sued by public safety groups, such as “CRASH”, and “PATT”  (that’s Parents Against [...]

In summary, Swift Transportation Co., probably the largest truckload company in the country, was involved in a fatal accident in Kansas in 2004, where their driver ran a stop sign, hit another vehicle, killing the driver. The jury returned a $36.5 million judgement this week against Swift.
$36.5 million! Why so much? [...]

I’ve been detained for basically the past 10 weeks on a large project for a big construction company, and I have not been advertising the DVD package as much as I should be.  However, I am now getting back into it, and will be making some changes.  First, I finally think I have found a good person [...]