Bad weather, heavy traffic, and equipment problems can combine together to make for a pretty bad day for professional drivers. But it’s hard to imagine a day at work being any worse than being involved in an accident.

Drivers who have shared this experience will tell you being involved in an accident can feel surreal. In the immediate aftermath it’s hard for drivers to think clearly—hard to know what to do, and hard to remember CMV driver requirements. That’s why it’s important for drivers to have a solid understanding of the procedures they need to follow if they’re ever involved in an accident.

This course is designed to help you understand what to do after being involved in (or witnessing) an accident. Specifically, it covers the procedures you should follow in order to safely and legally deal with the situation in a short period of time.

In this webinar, we’ll provide you with actionable and practical training on how to proactively protect your company and drivers from the costly consequences of hours-of-service (HOS) violations! This training focuses on the following key areas:

• Interstate and intrastate HOS regulations (Title 13 CCR 1212)
• Proper use of driver logs
• Effective methods for auditing and managing an electronic logging device (ELD)
• How to train drivers to log legally
• How to identify inaccurate entries and false logs
• Issues that raise red flags for enforcement and investigators
• Updates on recent and pending changes to the regulations, including intrastate ELDs

Agricultural exemptions are also covered within this presentation.

Backing counts as a very small percentage of a driver's driving time. But, the most common, and sometimes most costly, crashes or incidents in trucking involve backing. Backing incidents don't just damage trailers, buildings, and other equipment; sometimes they're fatal.

This course is designed to help reduce the number of backing accidents by teaching you how to recognize the dangers of backing and provide expert-level backing procedures. It covers the proper procedures for each backing maneuver, including straight-line, alley dock, sight-side jackknife, and blind-side jackknife backing and parallel parking.

This course provides the necessary “hazardous materials employee” training for interstate and intrastate motor carriers transporting regulated hazardous materials, as prescribed by Code of Federal Regulations, Title 49 and California Code of Regulations, Title 13 requirements.  This training is mandatory for office and dock workers, as well as drivers.  The regulations require the initial training within 90-days of employment and recurrent training once every 3-years.

Our course will provide:

• General Awareness/Familiarization Training
• Security Awareness Training
• Safety Training
• Function Specific Training - Drivers

(Note: In-depth Security Plan Training is mandatory if the motor carrier is required to have a Security Plan.  That training is not included in this course but may be requested via the CTA.  We recommend that additional training be conducted in-person.)

This virtual training seminar will cover California’s Basic Inspection of Terminal (BIT) Program requirements for terminal inspections performed by the California Highway Patrol Motor Carrier Safety Operations Program personnel.  Course material will provide in depth overview of applicability of BIT Program statutory and Motor Carrier Safety regulatory requirements.  Such requirements are:

• Maintenance Program – Preventive Maintenance and 90 Day Periodic Inspection
• Driver Records – Hours of Service, Driver Proficiency, Employer Pull Notice
• Vehicle Inspection
• Hazardous Materials

Students will be provided a “BIT Kit.” This is a library of course material to take with them from the training containing essential forms and reference material.

Drivers today are more distracted than ever by personal devices, vehicle technology, and other distracted drivers. In fact, hundreds of thousands of people are injured in distracted driving crashes each year, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Distracted driving is not only against the law, it puts everyone at risk.

Distracted Driving Prevention is designed to help you stay focused on the road, recognize the signs of a distracted driver, and understand how to manage distracted drivers.

According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) National Center for Statistics and Analysis, crashes involving large trucks resulted in over 5,000 deaths and over 150,000 injuries in 2019. Luckily, there are several things you can do to reduce your risk, and focusing on your personal health is a great place to start! This training will remind you to take care of yourself and ensure you take steps to be healthy while on the road.

This course is designed to help you understand how to avoid an accident or incident involving your tractor-trailer and a fixed object. Specifically, it covers how to avoid contacting various obstructions while performing basic driving maneuvers.

Human trafficking is a serious crime. Every day, women, men, girls, and boys are forced into commercial sex trafficking, forced labor situations, and domestic servitude across the globe. Unless you're specifically watching for it, it's likely you'll never see it. According to many human rights groups, the number of human trafficking incidents is rising at an alarming rate.

Even in the best conditions, driving a commercial motor vehicle requires preparation, constant alertness, and attention to detail. And when the sun goes down, driving a CMV at night introduces additional challenges.

Every driver, from the newly licensed teenager to the experienced professional, quickly learns driving at night is very different from driving during the day.

This course is designed to help you manage the unique hazards of driving in the dark. Specifically, it covers how you might prevent nighttime accidents by paying special attention to your truck, the road, and yourself.

As a commercial motor vehicle (CMV) driver, you spend most of your workday out on the road. Whether you are traveling to unfamiliar locations or following a routine route, a potential threat to your personal safety and security can come from anywhere.

The key to staying safe is recognizing and avoiding potentially harmful situations before they have a chance to play out. This course offers tips and suggestions to help you protect yourself against the threat of theft and physical violence when you are on the road or stopped for delivery or the night. Taking the precautionary actions outlined in this program will keep you from becoming an easy target for criminal activity. And, as an extension of your efforts to keep yourself safe, you are keeping your CMV and the cargo you are carrying safe as well.

¿Quiere ser proactivo y proteger a su empresa y a los conductores de los costosos resultados de las infracciones de HOS? En este curso, se le brindará capacitación comprensible del mundo real sobre las regulaciones federales de horas de servicio, el uso adecuado de los registros del conductor, cómo auditar registros de manera efectiva y consejos para administrar su programa ELD. Participará en revisiones y ejercicios de registros de conductores, aprenderá a capacitar a sus conductores para que inicien sesión legalmente e identifique entradas inexactas y registros falsos. Además, conocerá los problemas clave que generan señales de alerta para la aplicación y los investigadores, y recibirá una actualización sobre los cambios recientes y pendientes en las reglamentaciones. También se analizan las reglas de Horas de servicio intraestatales de California, Título 13 CCR 1212.

Successful commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers must do all they can to avoid accidents, roadside breakdowns, and lost road time due to poor vehicle condition. Conducting vehicle inspections helps drivers keep their vehicles in good working order. Routine vehicle inspections enable drivers to discover unsafe conditions before they cause accidents or crashes, find mechanical problems before they lead to costly breakdowns on the road, prevent being placed out of service during a roadside inspection, and avoid being subject to infractions and fines that affect productivity and profits.

Even though the reasons for conducting vehicle inspections are compelling, chances are that some of you newer drivers (and, unfortunately, even seasoned drivers) are not conducting the kind of inspections you should be. It may be because you don’t have an inspection process down pat yet, or it may be because you've gotten complacent. Whatever the reason, when you neglect your responsibility to conduct thorough vehicle inspections, it’s both costly and risky.