CSA Scores Explained, and How Maintenance Moves Them

A safety inspector using a flashlight to inspect semi-truck tires while a driver logs the electronic DVIR checklist on a digital tablet.

Your CSA score decides how often you get pulled in, what your insurance costs, and whether shippers and brokers want your freight. And the one category you control most is maintenance. Here’s how the scoring works, what’s changing at FMCSA, and the specific maintenance moves that push your percentile in the right direction. What a […]

The DOT Inspection Checklist Every Driver Should Carry

A female truck driver wearing a safety vest crouches to inspect semi truck front tire with a pre-trip inspection checklist on a clipboard.

A DOT inspection can happen anywhere, anytime — a weigh station outside Amarillo, a random pull-in on I-80, a checkpoint you didn’t see coming until the lights were already behind you. When it happens, you don’t get time to prepare. You get whatever you already have in the cab. That’s why every OTR driver, owner-operator, […]