If you've been in fleet management or trucking long enough, you've developed a healthy skepticism about federal deadlines. The automatic emergency braking (AEB) mandate for heavy trucks has been "coming soon" for so long that some of us have started treating it like that friend ... Read More »
Remember when a dashcam was just a camera? It sat on the windshield, recorded video, and occasionally exonerated your driver when a sedan decided to brake-check a 40-ton vehicle. Simpler times. In 2026, calling these devices "dashcams" is like calling your smartphone a "telephone." The ... Read More »
Every fleet has that one toolbox drawer. The one with a flashlight that doesn't work, a fistful of fuses for a truck you sold in 2019, and an instruction manual nobody has opened since the Clinton administration. Turns out the federal government had one too ... Read More »
If you've been treating the non-domiciled CDL rule like a weather forecast — "eh, it'll probably change before I have to do anything" — this is your wake-up call. The rule didn't blow over. It went to court, took a swing, and walked out still ... Read More »
The numbers from this year's International Roadcheck are a compliance wake-up call for every fleet running North American roads. During the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance's three-day enforcement blitz, May 12–14, 2026, inspectors pulled trucks off the road at a rate that should make any safety ... Read More »
The Good News Fleet Managers Have Earned After years of steadily worsening collision numbers following the pandemic, the 2026 data is finally offering some relief. Lytx released its 2026 Road Safety Report in March, drawing from more than 341 billion miles of commercial driving data ... Read More »
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From Reactive to Real-Time: How Fleet Safety Is Changing For years, fleet safety programs followed the same basic pattern. An accident happened, managers pulled video, they had a conversation with the driver, and everyone hoped it wouldn't happen again. That approach was never really prevention ... Read More »
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A Portal-Switching Problem Fleet Managers Know Too Well If you run both Fleetworthy Safety+ and Lytx cameras, you know the drill. A safety event triggers. You pull up the Safety+ dashboard to review the behavior data, then switch to the Lytx portal to find the ... Read More »
FMCSA's ELD Purge: Is Your Device Still Legal? A Compliance Crackdown Fleet Managers Can't Ignore The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is serious about cleaning up its electronic logging device registry. Since January 2026, the agency has removed 67 devices from its official list of ... Read More »
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Roadside inspections are a fact of life in commercial trucking. They happen at weigh stations, rest areas, and during ordinary traffic stops. They can occur at any time and almost never come with advance notice. For a new fleet manager, the best preparation you can ... Read More »
