I recently ran across a great article from ATBS called The Importance of the Pre-Trip Truck Inspection. In my opinion, the article was spot on in enumerating the reasons why drivers should perform ...

Legendary basketball coach John Wooden began each season by teaching his players how to tie their shoes. No, there was not some arcane “secret of the shoestrings” which led Wooden’s UCLA squads to ten ...

Pre-trip inspections are one the first things listed in the Commercial Driver License manual, hammering home the importance of the process. However, with fleet managers outnumbered by tractors and ...

This is the first of a multi-part series on how drivers and the maintenance department work together to increase uptime. High-quality pre- and post-trip inspections can be the difference in addressing ...

Ensuring that thorough tire inspections are part of every pre-trip checklist can extend tire life and help ensure that truck drivers make it to their destinations safely, tire experts said. “Proactive ...

Now I gotta pause here a sec and admit that I learned about the importance of a pre-trip inspection the hard way. Way back in my early days of wheeling I jumped into my old 1977 International Scout ...

Pre- and post-trip inspections play a pivotal role in identifying equipment maintenance problems early, which helps prevent roadside violations and minimizes vehicle downtime. Given the importance of ...

Unique Truck Equipment has teamed up with Justintime Tools to provide an effective way to check many of vehicle standards required in pre-trip inspection. Unique's Pocket Inspector is can easily ...

When Tom Bray was in charge of safety at a motor carrier, a frustration was seeing drivers leave the yard with an easily correctable problem that could result in a violation or worse — but should have ...