Brake Chamber Replacement & Caging Safety: A Road Tech’s Survival Guide
Learn how to safely replace truck brake chambers. This guide explains service vs. spring chambers, why caging is critical, and how road technicians can avoid deadly mistakes.
Heavy-Duty Fleet Safety
Fleet Safety
Practical field guidance for commercial drivers, technicians, supervisors, and fleet managers. This section now includes 12 in-depth articles covering the truck, the driver, the shop, the yard, the roadside, and the operating decisions that keep heavy-duty fleets safer.
Cones, Triangles, and Staying Visible at Night
Roadside technicians face their greatest danger from passing traffic. Learn how cones, triangles, warning devices, and high-visibility PPE help control nighttime roadside exposure.
Heavy-Duty Fleet Pre-Trip Inspections: A Practical Walkaround That Finds Problems Before the Road Does
A field-focused heavy-duty truck pre-trip inspection guide covering brakes, tires, lights, coupling, leaks, cargo, defect reporting, and fleet follow-through.
Air Brake Safety for Heavy-Duty Fleets: What Drivers and Technicians Need to Catch Early
An in-depth heavy-duty air-brake safety guide covering air leaks, chambers, slack adjusters, brake balance, heat, warning signs, inspections, and maintenance controls.
Heavy-Duty Tire and Wheel-End Safety: Preventing Blowouts, Separations, and Roadside Failures
A practical guide to heavy-duty tire and wheel-end safety, including inflation, tread, duals, wheel fasteners, hub seals, bearings, heat, inspections, and fleet controls.
Fatigue and Hours-of-Service Safety: Building a Fleet Culture That Prevents Drowsy Driving
A practical fleet fatigue-management guide explaining hours-of-service limits, sleep debt, dispatch pressure, warning signs, driver decisions, and management controls.
Distracted Driving in Commercial Fleets: Phones, Screens, Dispatch Pressure, and In-Cab Technology
A commercial fleet distracted-driving guide covering federal mobile-phone restrictions, dispatch messaging, navigation, in-cab screens, eating, cognitive distraction, and policy design.
Backing and Yard Safety for Heavy-Duty Trucks: Preventing Low-Speed, High-Consequence Crashes
A detailed heavy-duty backing and yard safety guide covering GOAL, spotters, blind areas, docks, pedestrians, yard flow, cameras, and company procedures.
Cargo Securement for Fleet Drivers: Tiedowns, Working Load Limits, and Rechecks That Keep Freight Put
A practical cargo-securement guide for heavy-duty fleet drivers covering WLL, tiedown condition, blocking, load shift, commodity rules, inspections, and rechecks.
Heavy-Duty Driving in Rain, Snow, Ice, Wind, and Low Visibility: A Decision-Making Guide
A heavy-duty hazardous-weather driving guide covering speed, stopping distance, traction, visibility, wind, route planning, equipment condition, and the decision to stop.
Building a Preventive Maintenance Safety Program: Turning Defect Reports into Safer Trucks
A practical heavy-duty fleet preventive-maintenance safety program covering PM intervals, defect escalation, inspections, repeat failures, records, technician qualifications, and management metrics.
Safe Speed and Following Distance for Heavy-Duty Trucks: Managing the Space That Prevents Crashes
A practical heavy-duty driving guide to safe speed, following distance, stopping space, traffic scanning, grades, curves, work zones, and fleet speed-management culture.