As an owner or manager of a hazardous waste company you have a little more oversight from the government to deal with than the average fleet. You also face greater dangers and bigger risks than other types of businesses that deal with over-the-road shipments and transports. For these reasons, and so many more, GPS fleet tracking can provide very real benefits to your business, including these listed below. Read the rest of this entry »

In August 2016, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) launched the “Our Roads, Our Responsibility” initiative. The idea behind it is to raise public awareness about how drivers can safely share road space with commercial vehicles such as buses and semi-trucks.

The campaign looks to inform drivers of non-commercial vehicles about the specific dangers of driving unsafely while near buses and trucks. For example, these large vehicles need twice as much stop distance as a passenger car. With this in mind, the campaign highlights the responsibility that all road users must share the road safely. Read the rest of this entry »

The beautiful brown Przewalski’s horse is an endangered subspecies that once lived in Mongolia and China. The horse, that’s also known as the Asian wild horse, has never been domesticated by man, and is a distant cousin of the domestic horse. Interestingly, the Przewalski has two chromosomes more than the domestic horse.

Throughout the ‘60s, competition with livestock, habitat loss, and over hunting made the Przewalski extinct in the wild, and after years of being raised in captivity, the horses were then reintroduced into the wild in areas of Mongolia. Today, there are around 500 of these wild horses living on a permanent or semi-permanent basis in Mongolia. Read the rest of this entry »

You may believe that the vehicles in your fleet are most likely to be put out of service for an unexpected complication found by inspectors from the Department of Transportation (DOT). However, according to Overdrive, ten percent of violations that put vehicles out of service result from tire issues.

With the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) enforcement program inflicting penalties on the safety rankings of carriers for all violations, it’s imperative to stay on top of tire safety and maintenance for your fleet. Read the rest of this entry »

On the morning of Oct. 14, in order to stem a series of bike thefts on campus, University of Northern Colorado police arrested a man on suspicion of stealing a bicycle.

Many UNC students prefer to travel via bike around campus, and as bike riding has been gaining in popularity, opportunist thefts have also increased. For this reason, police have urged students to register their bikes with parking services, and to take a note of their bike’s serial number so if they come into contact with a suspect, it can be checked.

According to an affidavit for his arrest, at approximately 2:45 a.m. on the morning in question, Adrian Moreno, 52, stole a bike that was placed there by police. Read the rest of this entry »