What’s Included in an Effective Bus Driver Training Program?
If you own a fleet of transit buses or motorcoaches, you’re legally obligated to train them. However, that is NOT the main reason to train your bus op...
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Hiring Drivers With No Experience: What Should You Do?
Here’s one of the most popular search terms from trucking companies: how to hire truck drivers.
The ABC’s of Defensive Driving
This blog was updated on December 15, 2021.
Safety and Compliance: Beat Nuclear Verdicts and Your Competition
It has never been more important to be safe and compliant. Such was the message driving Transport Topics’s webinar on nuclear verdicts and tort reform...
The 3 Biggest Mistakes Driver Trainers Make
Think back to your elementary school classroom. Was it a peaceful, controlled, and relaxed environment? Much to the chagrin of your teacher, probably ...
5 Topics To Be Teaching in Your Truck Driver Safety Training
I got a call the other day from a client who’s worked with us for many years. We first met him back in 1999. At the time he was senior vice president ...
Developing a Fleet Accident Response Plan
Accidents cost you money. Worse yet, they get people hurt or even killed. Your best bet is to work to prevent accidents from happening. But what’s you...
What is a Fleet Audit?
Like most people in the trucking industry, the idea of an audit probably makes your skin crawl. However, we’re not talking about the DOT. We’re talkin...
Fleet Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Tips to Keep Your Drivers Safe
You need simple solutions to reduce your fleet’s cost of loss. One way to do so is to focus on fleet vehicle maintenance and repairs.
Earn NATMI Certification Renewal Points for Training We Offer
Earn points towards NATMI certification renewal with AvatarFleet’s professional safe driving training programs.
Are Your Non-CDL Drivers Following These Steps Before Driving to a Job?
Your non-CDL light-duty vehicle drivers face tremendous risk out on the road. Other people, road conditions, and weather all create chances for seriou...
How Often Should You Do Safety Training?
If you want to get in shape and stay in shape, it’s not enough to spend a week lifting weights and running. You need to keep-up with an exercise routi...
Why Your Company Needs Monthly Safety Meetings
It isn’t enough to train your drivers when you first hire them. They need to be re-trained, re-trained again, and then re-trained some more. And here’...
The Importance of an LMS For Your Safety Training
Traditionally, training takes up a lot of time, money, and resources. You need to gather everyone together, pay a trainer to flip through a powerpoint...
6 Strategies For Effective Online Defensive Driving Training
Training your employees in defensive driving today isn’t the same as it was a year ago. What can you do to continue keeping your drivers safe in all t...
How to Build Safety Training into Your New Hire Orientation
Do you trust your new-hires to get behind the wheel? Do you trust them to avoid risk and prevent accidents on the job site? Or, are you holding your b...
How to Use Driver Mentors For Safety Training
One of the best ways to reduce your accident rates is to give your employees essential safety training right from the time of hire. However, it can be...
How to Create a Safety-Centric Culture
How can you influence your employees to care about safety as much as you do? What will it take to get your employees to think, breathe, and dream abou...
Why Driver's Ed Isn't Enough: The Importance of Professional Driver Training
Do your employees drive in order to fulfill vital job duties? If the answer’s yes, you have professional drivers.
How to Build a Safety Training Program in One Month
Maybe you’ve just been tasked with quickly developing a safety training program for your organization. Or, in the most unfortunate of circumstances, m...
When Does It Make Sense to Outsource Safety Training?
Do you spend time and energy creating your own in-house driver safety training materials? Or have you outsourced safety training?
Light-Duty Fleet Safety Tips: What Your Drivers Should Know
Driving is the riskiest thing your employees do.
Why You Need an LMS for Your In-House Safety Training
How many hours out of your week does your in-house safety training program eat-up?
Why You Should Provide Online Driver Training
You care about the safety of your employees. It’s why you host safety meetings, correct your employees’ unsafe behaviors, and read our blog posts. How...
Introducing LLLC Remote
Online defensive driving training used to be watching a video to check the box. The goal was to prove in court that you tried. We always thought it wa...
Updates To The Hours Of Service Regulations
In May, Congress elected to make changes to the existing hours of service rules in order to give truckers more flexibility in their work that will go ...
Solving The Driver Problem, Episode 7: John Liberatore
John Liberatore from Primacy Risk Services sits down with Scott to talk about how companies can protect their drivers and themselves from lawsuits bro...
Preventing Your Nuclear Verdict
Foster v. Landstar Ranger is an infamous case in the trucking industry. The 2011 case was filed by a Georgia woman in 2007 who was looking to hold a t...
Professional Driver Safety is a Way of Life
Brian Fielkow wrote a terrific article on the rising cost of liability insurance and the negative impact it’s having on the trucking industry. Fielko...
Tax Credit for CDL Training Expenses
Finally, a tax break for the trucking industry! This is big. Unlike the old joke that begins with, “Hi I’m from the government and I’m here to help yo...
Solving The Driver Problem With Recruiting & Retaining Part 2
In December of 2019, AvatarFleet President Scott Rea joined podcast host Chad Hendricks on an episode of Recruit & Retain: Trucking Edition. The e...
Better Dispatchers Lead to Better Retention
Your dispatchers could be causing you turnover. Of course, they don’t mean to, but we hear it from drivers time and time again. Drivers often quit bas...
Building A Safety Culture Builds Safe Drivers | AvatarFleet
This blog post was updated on March 31, 2021.
AvatarFleet Hosts LLLC Certification with OTA on October 15
Telematics - Where To Look For ROI
How to Train Your Drivers to Avoid Distractions
Distracted driving is, simply put, risky. By definition, risk is the possibility of suffering harm or loss. You risk a lot when you drive distracted. ...
Prevent Distracted Driving and Save More Lives
Summer is here and with so much sunshine, driving has suddenly become enjoyable. The grey skies and wintery conditions are gone. Everyone is rolling d...
Grand Champion, Ralph Hamilton, Headed Back to Nationals
Ralph Hamilton won the South Carolina Truck Driving Championships on May 5 in Columbia, South Carolina. The Grand Champion will be headed to Pittsburg...
CDL Finishing School Is a Necessity
How To Prevent Technological Distractions
If you’ve been in the transportation industry for a long time, you know as well as anyone that things have changed a lot. The days of paper logs, road...
Safety Leadership: Can Do / Will Do
Safety Leadership: Behaviorism
How to Prevent Accidents at Your Terminal
At AvatarFleet, we love safe drivers. That’s why we always have our ear to the ground when it comes to accident data. It’s also why we hate to see FMC...
Safety Leadership: Management and Safety
Safety Leadership: Norms and Safety
Safety Leadership: Rules and Safety
This is a continuation of our blog series on Safety Leadership. In the last article, we explained Avatar’s five-step risk management model and said mo...
Safety Leadership: The Risk Management Model
This is a continuation of our blog series on Safety Leadership. In the first blog, we defined safety as “Freedom from risk.” And, based on that defin...
Safety Leadership: What We Can Learn From Accidents
Safety Leadership: You Break It, You Buy It
Creating Viable Career Paths for Truck Drivers
Driving a truck can be a stable lifelong career but the lifestyle has contributed to the driver problem in America today. More than any other element,...
Safety Leadership: Getting Started
For several months my team has been asking me to write an ebook on Safety Leadership. At first, this would seem to be an easy task. After all, we’ve ...
How to Choose a Driver Training Program: Typical Challenges
This article serves as Part 3 of 3 in a series on Choosing a Driver Training Program
9 Keys To Safe Professional Driving
Professional driving is a tough gig. It’s also one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. That’s because driving any kind of vehicle is a dangerous ...
How to Choose a Driver Training Program: Desired Outcomes
How to Choose a Driver Training Program: Learning Domains
Why You Need Driver Finishing School
Distracted Driving - Why I Chose to Die | AvatarFleet
Online Driver Safety Training: What You Need to Know
If you want quality, outcome-based online driver safety training, you need to understand what goes into creating a successful design. It’s all about y...
What is Defensive Driving? And How We Teach It | AvatarFleet