Arnold Safety Blog

I read this in the print version of Transport Topics. I couldn’t find the article on-line, but let me summarize. Congressman James Oberstar (D-Minn), Chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has put FMCSA on notice that if they do not publish regulations mandating more stringent medical qualification guidelines for drivers by the [...]

Here is a very long piece by the Associated Press detailing what they believe to be a major safety problem. To read the whole thing, go to the link. In summary, the article says that the FMCSA has dropped the ball by not writing more stringent regulations to prevent unhealthy truck drivers from [...]

I haven’t posted anything in awhile. Why? Well, let’s just say, if you’re not backing up your computer files, you should be. One day you’re going to push the “ON” button on your trusty laptop, and it’s just going to sit there. I was 80% ready for that awful day, next [...]

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About ten days ago, on July 20, 2007, a truck driver, who couldn’t speak English, got confused at a railroad crossing, and stopped his truck across the railroad tracks, where it was split open by an oncoming train. The crossing had signs, in English of course, which directs traffic to pull up past a [...]

Every driver of a commercial motor vehicle is required to have a driver qualification file.  In this file are a variety of documents which demonstrate to the world that this driver is qualified to operate a commercial motor vehicle.  This applies to drivers in interstate commerce (usually meaning crossing state lines) if they operate a [...]