This year’s CVSA (Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance) International Roadcheck will take place June 4-6, 2019. Inspectors throughout North America will conduct inspections on vehicles and drivers with a focus on steering and suspension systems. Although a truck’s steering and suspension…
Too many drivers on the highways do not alter their driving skills based on weather and road conditions. Adjusting your driving behavior to meet changing conditions, good maneuvering and skid control skills are all essential in making it safely to…
Brake Safety Week, September 16-22, 2018, will bring an increase in truck inspections that focus on brake violations, according to the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA). The majority of inspections during this week will be full, Level 1 inspections, which…
Safe driving gets started with creating safe habits. Those habits include more than just defensive driving skills and speed and space management. It also includes planning your route, using tools made specifically for CMV drivers, such as GPS and paper…
Weight enforcement policies are put in place because overweight vehicles damage roadways and shorten their life. When this happens more public tax dollars must be allocated to repair deterioration of roadways and bridges. One five axle truck weighs about the…
As ICD Freight continues to grow, we welcome our newest driver Eddie L. and Ed M. to the team. Ed and Eddie are in their trucks and headed from our offices in Lenexa, KS to take their first loads as…
The ELD mandate has been in effect since mid-December of 2017. As our drivers continue to familiarize themselves with using their ELDs, we would like to outline some important requirements during a roadside inspection. A roadside inspection should go much…