Helping You Meet Compliance and Safety Goals
With over 65 years combined experience in the Commercial Trucking Industry, we have worked both on the enforcement side and with the motor carriers helping them comply with both state & federal regulations. We know what state and federal officials are looking for and provide peace of mind and preparedness for the trucking industry.
When you partner with us, we put together a comprehensive plan and do regular audits, inspections, reviews, and training. This takes the headache and high cost out of trying to keep up with compliance and safety requirements.
The United States Department of Transportation has a checklist which all trucking companies must comply to. This includes obligations such as completing the right inspections and physical examinations, ensuring the driver carries compliance documents in the truck with them at all times, marking DOT numbers on the trucks and recording hours of service, and much more.
DOT safety standards help keep vehicle drivers and their shipment safe. Complying with the standards and regulations also guarantees safer trucks on the roads, failure to which your company could easily be put out of commission.
DOT compliance standards keep changing, and may even be different across state lines. A regular safety audit is the surest way to remain up to date with these standards. At Commercial Truck Consulting, we will make it our business to keep your company’s compliance records up to date and make sure you can do business all year round across all 50 states.
We Specialize In
- Cannabis Transport and Required Permits
- California BIT program
- Pre-BIT/DOT inspection consultations
- Bus regulations & inspections
- Comprehensive safety analysis (CSA)
- DOT new entrants
- DOT safety & truck regulations
- DOT truck inspections
- DOT annual inspection training
- Hazardous materials (TDG, PHMSA)
- California CARB regulations
- California Employer Pull Notice program
- Drug & alcohol programs
- Traffic accident investigation
- Federal regulations (USDOT)
- Federal & California loading regulations
- Safety training
- Maintenance & driver logs
- Truck safety consultations & regulations
Trucking & DOT Compliance Services
You Can Rely on Our Expertise
Why Choose Commercial Truck Consulting?
Our highest specialty is California BIT regulations. We have trained the other companies that provide BIT services, so we know our stuff. With a combined experience of over 65 years, we have extensive & superior training through the California Highway Patrol. This means we understand what CHP and the Motor Carrier Specialists that run the BIT program are looking for.
When we train you, it doesn’t stop with teaching you how to do the paperwork. We get our hands dirty and teach you how to do your 90 day truck inspections.
Our expertise doesn’t stop with the BIT program. We have the experience, training, and heart to help you take your company to the next level through understanding the regulations and navigating them.
How can we help?
At Commercial Truck Consulting, we understand how important compliance to DOT, Transport and Trucking regulations is. To keep you set at all times:
- We will make sure each driver on your team is compliant and meets the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSA) requirements as necessary.
- We offer safety training on a regular basis to keep your drivers up to date with the latest Transportation and Trucking rules and regulations.
- We will draw to your attention any driver who does not meet the compliance standards and guide you to process them and update their status.
- We will help check that your registration/ application forms are filled out correctly and make sure that all your documents are submitted for evaluation and verification in good time.
- We will work with your team to maintain great safety, accountability and compliance scores to make sure you reduce any risks or disciplinary fines or mitigate any loss of business that may be occasioned by non-compliance.
- We will offer periodical audit support to maintain year-long compliance for your team and trucks to make sure you can efficiently conduct business across all 50 states.
I have worked for Columbia Distributing for 6 years, and for 5 of those years, I have had the pleasure of working closely with Wes Curtis at Commercial Truck Consulting. We have worked together in many capacities, including day-to-day consultation, mock audits, process, procedure, and policy structuring.
Wes is a wealth of information and expertise when it comes to DOT regulation, both on the federal and state level. He also offers educational resources in the form of requirements, referrals, and even teaches on various subjects himself. In my position, I oversee compliance for three states, 14 branches, and on average 600 regulated CDL holders.
Wes is an invaluable resource for myself and Columbia Distributing. The relationship and reliable resource that Wes and Commercial Truck Consulting provide to Columbia Distributing is priceless!
We have worked with Wes on multiple PHMSA and FMCSA mock audits. The combination of Wes’ in-depth knowledge of the regulations and audit process, mixed in with a watchful eye on litigious situations helped propel our compliance program forward. Wes is thorough and acted as a true business partner!
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, it can! With the proper training, your staff will breeze through inspections as quickly and easily as possible. They’ll spend less time worrying about upcoming reviews, feel confident enough to answer inspector questions thoroughly, and spend less time chasing answers or looking for documentation.
Plus, a stellar safety record will often qualify your fleet for fewer BIT inspections. They’re usually conducted every 90 days, but a good record can see them reduced to just once or twice per year.
Yes. At CTC, we have a training program that begins by educating your drivers on the requirements of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSA) requirements and goes on show them how to remain compliant in readiness for a DOT inspection.
Every trucking company has unique needs and we’re happy to address them in our training sessions. If you know your team is weak in a certain area (like planning for the logistics of a roadside inspection) or could use additional training on certain aspects of the DOT or BIT reviews, we’ll happily customize our presentation to cover those needs.
We will help you by keeping your company informed, updated and compliant on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSA) requirements. We can also help you come up with a company checklist for you to conduct regular internal audits to make sure you remain compliant.
You can conduct regular internal audits on your vehicles and drivers using a checklist from the Department of Transportation. We can help you create this list and also train your drivers and staff on how to be compliant and inspection ready.
DOT Compliance is attached to both the vehicle and the driver. Sometimes the shipment is inspected too. Depending on the level of inspection, either one or both of the elements would be subjected to inspection when a vehicle is stopped on the road.
The term “reasonable suspicion” is a term that describes an aspect of DOT’s drug and alcohol training. This topic teaches fleet or driver managers how to notice and document behavior if they have a “reasonable suspicion” that a driver might be under the influence of drugs or alcohol. It’s covered in our DOT training.
This is compliance by all commercial vehicle operators to the set list of rules and regulations governing all aspects of commercial vehicles for public safety as required by the United States Department of Transportation.
If your driver fails the DOT Inspection you will have to send another driver to take over the truck. If the vehicle is the one serious violation, then it could be put out of service. If the non-compliance is minor, the vehicle will either be repaired on site or towed to a place where repairs can be done.
Both DOT and BIT inspections are the federal and state governments’ ways of ensuring every truck on the road is safe enough to be there.
Your rigs are heavy and powerful, and if they’re not in good operating condition, they could pose a threat to your drivers and other road users. DOT and BIT inspections address the many factors that might make a truck unsafe and attempt to set a standard of routine fleet maintenance so everyone gets home safely.
DOT Compliance is aimed at maintaining safety for all road users. Being DOT Compliant also saves your company money that would be used in paying fines or money that would be lost if your operations had to be suspended for non-compliance.