Arnold Safety Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Many drivers ask, “When I’m filling out my logbook, can I use shorthand when putting in the locations in the ‘Remarks’ section?” Instead of writing, Cincinnati, can I write Cincy? Or NYC? Or STL? The rules do not provide for that. They say city, town, village, and the State abbreviation. [...]

In the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 11, a Groendyke Transport tanker truck hit a bridge abutment, flipping his trailer over the railing onto the roadway below. The driver sustained minor injuries. The highways were shutdown nearly all day while cleanup crews pumped off the 8,000 gallons of butane into another tank.
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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 [...]

Late yesterday, January 24, 2008, the US Court of Appeals denied Public Citizen’s petition to invalidate the FMCSA’s hours of service rules, which were issued (re-issued?) on December 27, 2007. Yea!
To recap: FMCSA changed rules to the 11, 14, 70 hours in 2004, I think. The public safety crazies sued them, saying [...]

The National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission released its report on January 15, on how to spend highway money, and reduce congestion. They recommended changes in the current hours of service rules, to allow drivers to stop their 14 hour clocks with off-duty periods. Presently, the clock starts running at the [...]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5426492.html
The Tornado Bus Co. driver, who cause the four fatality wreck in Arkansas on Nov. 25, 2007, has been charged with four counts of negligent homicide.  He tested positive for amphetamines.  Tornado was placed Out of Service by FMCSA on December 27, 2007 for being an imminent hazard.  Amphetamines are used as a stimulant, and [...]