Aggressive Driving

By Robert Chittendon | September 17, 2025

Aggressive driving is insidious in onset and devastating in affect.

Driver Applicant Evaluation

By Robert Chittendon | September 16, 2025

Evaluating the applicant is an essential element of hiring an employee/contractor that will meet the employers needs and expectations. A good “screen-door” keeps out “bugs.”

How to improve pre-trip Inspections

By Robert Chittendon | September 15, 2025

Pre-trip inspections are “preventitive medicine” for the ills of SMS. We talk about them constantly, but what do we do to nuture their improvement.

DOT Interventions

By Robert Chittendon | September 3, 2025

Driver qualification (DQ) and record-keeping errors are common violations on DOT Interventions. These types of errors are easy to avoid: !) Never use a driver until you have a pre-employment controlled substance test in-hand. 2) Never use a driver without a Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse (DACH) completed pre-employment query stating “Driver not prohibited.” 3) Never…

DOT Compliance

By Robert Chittendon | September 1, 2025

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DOT Compliance

By Robert Chittendon | August 30, 2025

Transportation Safety Inc Intro

By Robert Chittendon | August 28, 2025

Why me

By Robert Chittendon | August 13, 2025

I was enjoying coffee with a friend this morning, and my friend replied to a question with “above my pay grade.” Without much thought in the moment, we continued our conversation. Upon reflection, I found myself asking the question, albeit to myself, “Do we truly comprehend the enormous vastness of our ‘pay grade, regardless of…

Why a Road Test?

By Robert Chittendon | July 29, 2025

https://transportationsafetyinc.com 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗮 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘁? My football playing days are well in the past – the far, distant, fading past. However, I remember as if it were yesterday. When we were not functioning as a team, eleven of us not functioning as one – focused on one goal – winning. It was back to the…

English Speaking

By Robert Chittendon | July 20, 2025

The rules of the game have changed! Effective 25-Jun-2025 a violations of 391.11(b)(2), English language requirement, has become an “Out of Service” violation. My personal opinion is that we have entered into a very, very subjective area in that the determination is going to be made by a single individual, under (more than likely) adverse…