Truck Tips: How to check tractor-trailer brakes (video)

Daily vehicle inspection requirements include a check of the operational parts of an air brake system, like the governor, the air compressor and the low-air-pressure warning devices. This portion…

Truck Tips: How to mark and measure brake adjustment (video)

Commercial drivers are required by law to ensure their brakes are in working order and properly adjusted. The mark-and-measure method is considered the only reliable means of measuring brake…

Truck Tips: How to couple and uncouple a trailer (video)

After you arrive at the yard and identify the trailer you are to pick up, scan the area in front of the trailer for obstacles before backing under it.

Truck Tips: How to adjust 5th wheels and trailer bogeys (video)

Because of commercial vehicle gross-weight and axle-weight regulations, drivers will occasionally need to reposition the 5th wheel or the trailer axles for proper weight distribution. This video explains how…

Truck Tips: How to set and adjust truck mirrors (video)

Mirrors must be adjusted properly to get the best view of what’s behind you and beside you. Proper adjustment can help you back straighter and track your trailer wheels…

Truck Tips: How to back up a tractor-trailer (video)

Backing a tractor-trailer accurately and safely is a skill that has to be learned and mastered. You will run into all kinds of different backing situations in your…

Mountain Driving 101: How truck brakes work, and how they overheat

This video is a primer on brakes. Equipment Editor Jim Park cover the basics on how they work and what happens when brake drums get hot. Hot brakes can…

Mountain Driving 101: Inspecting brakes before heading downhill

When driving across the prairies or the plains, you’d probably never notice if a brake or two were out of adjustment, but you can’t take brakes for granted when…

Mountain Driving 101: Understanding signs, and using an AMT

Some grades have signs that display a profile of the hill; some signage offers ambiguous warnings like, “Use Lower Gear” or “Slow Down,” but lower than what or how…

Mountain Driving 101: Match the truck gear and speed to the grade

Mountain driving instructor Andy Roberts and equipment editor Jim Park talk their way through a downhill descent, explaining gear selection, desired road speed. They make two trips down…

Operation Safe Driver Week with Christopher Turner, CVSA

Operation Safe Driver Week, an annual initiative led by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, begins July 12. And just like last year, enforcement officers will place a…

ANNOUNCEMENT: ELDs Required by 2021

TORONTO, Ont. – Canada’s long-awaited electronic logging device (ELD) rule has been published, which the Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) says will catapult Canada ahead of the U.S. in…

‘The Movement of Anything’ | Is the Canadian Trucking Industry Ready?

The trucking industry in Canada not only prides itself on being relationship focused, but on utilizing traditional operational methods as well. With over 300,000 truck drivers across Canada, many…

Debunking the myths of video technology

Hernan Medina of Lytx dispels myths surrounding video recording technology at this year's Fleet Safety Council's annual educational conference.

Can Video Help Enforce Company Policies?

A speaker at the Fleet Safety Council's annual educational conference tells fleets how video technology can help your company enforce its existing policies.