The Importance of a Pre-Trip Inspection
Planning a safe trip as a professional truck driver requires thoughtful preparation before every journey. These are key practices to keep in mind throughout each stage of your trip.
Speeding Was Top Offense during Operation Safe Driver Week
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) released data late last week on the results of its Operation Safe Driver Week held July 11-17. Operation Safe Driver is aimed at enforcing traffic laws against passenger cars driving unsafely around large trucks and vice versa. Over the 7-day period, enforcement officers throughout the U.S., Canada and Mexico stopped over 46,000 passenger and commercial motor vehicle drivers for engaging in dangerous driving behaviors.
Of the total stops, 28,148 were commercial motor vehicles and 17,910 were passenger vehicles. Drivers were issued 10,486 warnings and 16,863 citations. Of the total, 11,039 citations and 5,478 warnings were written for speeding/basic speed law/driving too fast for conditions.
A majority of the speeding citations and warnings (9,349 and 2,929 respectively) went to passenger vehicle drivers, with 1,690 speed-related citations and 2,549 warnings given to commercial vehicle drivers.
In addition to speeding, the next highest reasons CDL drivers were cited were:
• failure to wear a seat belt (1,225)
• failure to obey a traffic control device (522)
• texting with a handheld phone (344)
• improper lane change (112)
Commercial enforcement officers are on the lookout for these unsafe driving behaviors all year long, but particularly for unsafe speed or driving too fast for conditions.
Check below for tips for drivers compiled by our safety consultants. Follow these tips to avoid having to speed to make delivery appointments and to operate more safely on the highway.
Welcome to 2026! Here is What to Expect From the Feds
English-language proficiency, non-domiciled truck driver licensing, enforcement of cabotage rules, thorough commercial driver’s license (CDL) training… actions in all of these areas made trucking headlines in the first year of the Trump Administration.
Marijuana Rescheduling: What it Means for Trucking
On December 18, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order directing the federal government to conduct rulemaking to move marijuana from a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) to Schedule III.