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Yes, incident footage can protect against litigation, but it also can serve as a training resource and improve driver accountability and safety.

It’s a great honor to be named the National Tank Truck Carriers’ Professional Tank Truck Driver of the Year, because being safe out there is the most important thing for all of us — the drivers, our companies and the people we share the roads with. As a professional driver, I want to share my thoughts about safety on the road — what the risks are and how to avoid them.

There’s currently a lot of buzz about autonomous, self-driving vehicles, including trucks. And, yes, most truck makers are working on technologies that could make such vehicles viable years in the future.

Receiving the title of chairman of American Trucking Associations is, for many of us in the industry, considered a pinnacle of one’s career. It’s certainly the pinnacle for me.

Documenting what you have done is a regular part of the trucking industry. At least it should be.

The Food and Drug Administration’s new rules on sanitary transportation of human and animal food products have many third-party logistics providers concerned about liability. With the rules defining brokers as shippers, many 3PLs may soon become responsible for requirements tied to equipment, training and record keeping — all things they haven’t been accountable for in the past.

In the trucking industry, we’re fond of calling ourselves the lifeblood of the American economy — delivering the goods that our stores, hospitals and restaurants need to maintain our quality of life.

Expectations this year are for the U.S. economy to grow moderately, fuel prices to stay at historic lows and truck capacity to remain tight for a healthy rate environment. However, growing faster than the competition will require more than opportunities.

If you had an extra $2 million to spend on your fleet, what would you do with it? I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that most fleet owners would earmark the cash for capital expenditures or personnel development.