Arnold Safety Blog

This happened Monday, June 23, 2008 in the Chinatown section of Manhattan.
A dump truck coming down the off-ramp from the Manhattan Bridge lost control, and slammed into the back of a parked bus, which was loading passengers at the time. The truck driver said the brakes failed. One person was killed, and 3 [...]

Today, in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the 2nd Amendment, and struck down the handgun ban in the District Columbia. For you wannabe lawyers, the opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller is HERE.
Well, that’s kind of scary there are 4 Communist judges on the Supreme Court who can read a simple [...]

The DOT has issued a rulemaking, which affects the way drug and alcohol testing is conducted. Go here to review the changes.
Most of it is inside baseball, which has no bearing on motor carriers or nearly all drivers. However, there is one significant change. Starting 8/25/08, all return-to-duty tests and follow-up tests [...]

This is a popular question in safety classes. Drivers want to know how far they can show themselves driving on their logs, without it being questioned. The short answer is, you are supposed to log it as you drove it. In other words, if you left Carlisle, PA at 8:45am, and arrived [...]

This happened early in June, 2008. It’s really your run-of-the-mill accident, no injuries, but what I found interesting from the article is the box-van driver was 19. The Federal regulations require that vehicles with a Gross Vehicle Weight Rating of over 10,000 lbs. be at least 21. However, nearly all States allow [...]

US Department of Transportation Secretary Mary Peters reported that Americans are driving less in 2008 than in 2007. In fact, over the past 6 months, the amount of mileage has declined every month as compared to its 2007 counterpart. This just goes to show that the laws of supply and demand do work. [...]

Last week, a former driver for Crete Carrier Corp., of Crete, NE was sentenced to 7 years in jail for crashing his tractor-trailer into a car and school bus, killing 7. This wreck occurred on January 25, 2006.
This has been one of the worst truck wrecks in terms of casualties in the past few [...]

Here’s a story from Canada. In June, 2007, a truck driver was killed when 3 idiots drag racing on the highway ran him off the road. Yesterday, one of them was sentenced to two years house arrest, and a lifetime ban on driving. The story is below. Seems like truck drivers’ [...]

This press release was issued recently by the Department of Justice. It illustrates that the government does take criminal action occasionally for safety violations.
FRESNO, Calif.—United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today that SURINDER SINGH NIJJAR, 42, of Madera, Calif., owner of Nijar Brothers Trucking and NB Trucking, Inc., was sentenced to one year [...]