Arnold Safety Blog

Monday, February 25, 2008, the FBI raided two truck driver training schools in Memphis. Both schools are owned and operated by Swift Transportation, of Phoenix, AZ, one of the largest truckload carriers in the country. Apparently, the purpose of the raid was to investigate the illegal issuance of CDL licenses.
Swift Transportation has stated [...]

Wednesday February 26, on I-81, near Harrisonburg, VA, a southbound tractor trailer crossed the median and hit a northbound van head-on. Both occupants of the van were killed.
Check out the comments at the bottom of the page, particularly those of “Bill” and “Craig”. Both claim to have witnessed the crash, and stated the [...]

Last Tuesday, February 19, 2008, a speeding minivan ran through a stop sign, and plowed into the side of school bus, tipping it onto its side, in Cottonwood, MN. 4 kids inside the bus were killed. More details are emerging about the crash. The driver of the mini-van, Alianiss Morales, 23, is [...]

On Tuesday, February 19, on I-10 in El Paso, TX, a westbound tractor-trailer lost its left front steer wheel, which then bounced into the eastbound lanes of I-10. The wheel struck a glancing blow to at Dodge pickup pulling a camper, smashing in the driver’s door. No one was injured.

This sort of thing [...]

Here’s a nasty little story that you might not have seen, even though it doesn’t involve commercial vehicles. Around 3-4am on Saturday morning, February 16, in suburban Washington, DC (Accokeek, MD, to be exact), 8 people were killed in bizarre fashion.
A crowd of people had gathered to watch a street drag race. As [...]

On the afternoon of February 14, a fatal wreck occurred in Ocala, FL. A conversion van was attempting to merge onto northbound I-75, when it struck a tractor-trailer which was on the shoulder of the on-ramp to I-75. The truck was partially parked in the travel lane of the on-ramp, and the van [...]

Let me say a few words about our DVD Compliance Package we have for sale. There are a whole series of safety regulations out there that apply to you because you operate trucks on the road. My package is designed to teach you what you need to keep the government happy in a [...]

Early Wednesday morning, a westbound tractor-trailer on I-40 near Shawnee, OK hit a bridge abutment, bursting into flames, and incinerating the driver, who may have been dead already from the impact. This has all the earmarkings of a classic fatigue wreck. Single vehicle, losing control for no reason. Maybe the tractor blew [...]

FMCSA has a whole set of ‘other’ regulations, which really have nothing at all to do with safety. These are holdovers from the defunct Interstate Commerce Commissioin (ICC), and they protect the public from unscrupulous moving companies. The fines attached with these regulations are outrageously high, done so intentionally by the Congress, as [...]

WOW, what a game. Probably the best Super Bowl I’ve ever watched. Of course, I wouldn’t be saying that if the Patriots won, but they didn’t so, GREAT GAME! It looks like the Giants put to rest any talk of the “best team ever”, as they beat the Patriots up and down [...]