Wilson here shares the story of a carrier he worked with whose consortium dropped the ball on saving data to prove it's doing the job it's supposed to be doing. Namely, random-testing pools of drivers for alcohol at the rate of 10 percent in any given year and for drugs at 50 percent. Given drugs and alcohol issues at a carrier is a surefire way to get the FMCSA looking at you for years to come, as he says, he advises taking steps to ensure your consortium's house is in order.

With the date getting closer (late June) for Mike Ryan's annual Pike's Peak hill climb in his modified Cascadia, revisit with him and Chumpcar's John Condren here talking details about the 2015 debut of the ChampTruck race series, aiming to bring Class 8 racing to the states in a big way.

With the date getting closer (late June) for Mike Ryan's annual Pike's Peak hill climb in his modified Cascadia, revisit with him and Chumpcar's John Condren here talking details about the 2015 debut of the ChampTruck race series, aiming to bring Class 8 racing to the states in a big way.

With the date getting closer (late June) for Mike Ryan's annual Pike's Peak hill climb in his modified Cascadia, revisit with him and Chumpcar's John Condren here talking details about the 2015 debut of the ChampTruck race series, aiming to bring Class 8 racing to the states in a big way.

With the proposed anti-driver-coercion rule from the FMCSA now in a public comment period, the added legal protections it would bring for those blowing the whistle on unscrupulous motor carriers brings to mind the sometimes overlooked protections that already exist in the Surface Transportation Assistance Act. This audio, from attorney Paul Taylor 2012 address at the Truck Driver Social Media Convention, outlines the STAA protections. Taylor can be found at his website, http://truckersjustice.com.

With the proposed anti-driver-coercion rule from the FMCSA now in a public comment period, the added legal protections it would bring for those blowing the whistle on unscrupulous motor carriers brings to mind the sometimes overlooked protections that already exist in the Surface Transportation Assistance Act. This audio, from attorney Paul Taylor 2012 address at the Truck Driver Social Media Convention, outlines the STAA protections. Taylor can be found at his website, http://truckersjustice.com.

With the proposed anti-driver-coercion rule from the FMCSA now in a public comment period, the added legal protections it would bring for those blowing the whistle on unscrupulous motor carriers brings to mind the sometimes overlooked protections that already exist in the Surface Transportation Assistance Act. This audio, from attorney Paul Taylor 2012 address at the Truck Driver Social Media Convention, outlines the STAA protections. Taylor can be found at his website, http://truckersjustice.com.

At the April 2014 meeting of the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee's CSA subcommittee, Transplace CEO Tom Sanderson and Panther Expedited's Irwin Shires gave public comment at the end of Day One highlighting irregularities in the CSA SMS percentiles and the use of those numbers as de facto safety ratings in the shipper/broker realms. Hear their testimonies here.

At the April 2014 meeting of the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee's CSA subcommittee, Transplace CEO Tom Sanderson and Panther Expedited's Irwin Shires gave public comment at the end of Day One highlighting irregularities in the CSA SMS percentiles and the use of those numbers as de facto safety ratings in the shipper/broker realms. Hear their testimonies here.

Eric Siegel, author of "Predictive Analytics," talks with Overdrive Editor Max Heine about the ethics of predictive modeling and its safety and human resources applications for trucking.