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Employers need to take care of their workers’ health and safety. While many safety hazards are well-understood and easy to conceptualise like physical hazards such as moving equipment, psychological hazards may be harder for an employer to wrap their...
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s 2021 Roadcheck event is right ahead of us. Scheduled for May 4-6, 2021, this event will see commercial vehicle safety inspectors around North America conducting inspections on heavy trucks, trailers, and buses. CVSA will be...
Professional drivers should not have the habit of lightly riding the brakes for long distances as a way to control their speed. Most heavy vehicles have additional braking devices like engine retarders which can help control speed and you...
Long-haul drivers cover incredible distances and are able to see many beautiful sights through their windshields. However, trucking is no vacation, and there is often precious little time for anything other than rest and work when you’re out on...
All cargo on a vehicle needs to be secured. In Canada, National Safety Code Standard 10 is the guideline for cargo securement. Most provinces, when writing their load securement legislation, just adopt Standard 10 for load securement rules. Flatbed truck...
When it comes to getting permits for oversize loads, whether or not the load is reducible is typically a major factor in permitting. A reducible load is a load that can be easily made smaller, and a non-reducible load...
A truck’s sleeper isn’t a very big space, but there are still some forms of exercise that can be done in the limited amount of room the sleeper offers. The best part about exercising in the sleeper is that...
Unless you are using a grease-free 5th wheel, get comfortable with greasing the plate on a regular basis. Whether you are pulling the same trailer constantly or changing all the time, you need to regularly grease the 5th wheel...
A truck’s sleeper isn’t a very big space, but there are still some forms of exercise that can be done in the limited amount of room the sleeper offers. The best part about exercising in the sleeper is that...
A tractor-trailer may have several sliding surfaces with locking pins designed for cargo loading and weight distribution purposes. Two common examples are a sliding 5th wheel and a sliding trailer tandem set. A less-common example would be the sliding...
