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Insights From the 2015 ATA Safety Director of the Year

Vertical Alliance Group, is proud to announce Allan Hicks has received the Safety Director of the Year Award from the American Trucking Association (ATA). In addition to being the vice president of safety at B.R. Williams Trucking, Inc., in Oxford, Alabama, Allan also represents Vertical Alliance Group in Alabama and Georgia as a partner selling our Infinit-I Workforce System.

“This is the highest honor you can get within the safety profession. You just look down the list of those in

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Adds 14 New Training Videos for Trucking

Vertical Alliance Group is committed to ensuring you have access to the best training videos in the industry. This month we released 14 new safety training videos for you to utilize in your safety training meetings and in-services.  The first new release is designed to help your drivers understand the most common unsafe driving acts:
Unsafe Driving Acts of Motorists in the Vicinity of Large Trucks
This video discusses the 23 unsafe driving acts most commonly performed by motorists around la

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Nussbaum Transportation Wins Safety & Compliance Award

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vertical Alliance Group would like to congratulate one of our clients, Nussbaum Transportation, on the announcement this week that their director of human resources and safety, Jeremy Stickling, was awarded Heavy Duty Trucking magazine’s 2015 Safety & Compliance Award.

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"Grant Parish School Board initially purchased the Infinit-I Workforce System for use in the transportation department.  Then we quickly realized that the program could be utilized system wide.  The Infinit-I Workforce System has made recordkeeping for state mandated training, for every employee, extremely easy.  Our human resource department no longer has to keep up with thousands of completion certificates and who has not completed their training.  Now we jus

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CCJ Features Infinit-I for Driver Training

This week the Commercial Carrier Journal again featured the Infinit-I Workforce System in their publication. In the article, Aaron Huff wrote, "Whether fleets decide to use old school or high-tech training methods, experts say it is critical to document every aspect of the training process."

This is a point Vertical Alliance Group works hard to educate trucking companies about.  At our bi-monthly Infinit-I Engage Evaluation Program, former safety director

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Boot Camp Program Now an Approved NATMI Safety Event

Vertical Alliance Group recently announced their Infinit-I Engage Evaluation Program has been approved by the North American Transportation Management Institute (NATMI) and earns certified safety directors two recertification points. Learn more about the accredidation here.

The two day event provides attendees with a unique opportunity to explore the benefits of implementing online training within their company. As a hands-on event, attendees are given the opportunity to learn “Best

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Canal Insurance Safety Seminar

Canal Insurance held its annual Safety Conference April 22-April 24 at their home office in Greenville, South Carolina. This 2 day event saw presentations by a multitude of industry experts and representatives, including by Vertical Alliance President & CEO, Jay Wommack.

Tim Lawhorne (left) and Randy Sturdivant (right) of Vertical Alliance Group with Canal Insurance representative Ross Brigman (center)

The first day featured presenters from the SC Division of the FMCSA and the CVSA going o

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Can You Provide These 4 Safety Compliance Items?

Since 2004, Ram Services has successfully operated a fleet of right at 15 trucks out of the Dallas, Texas area. When they lost one of their drivers to a single-vehicle fatality accident in July of 2014, they knew a DOT audit was coming. What they didn’t know was just how severe that accident, coupled with one other recordable accident in a 12 month period, was going to substantially impact their business’ bottom line when the audit happened that November.

An Unanticipated Result of

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How Online Training Helped Ram Services with a DOT Audit

Since 2004, Ram Services has successfully operated a fleet of right at 15 trucks out of the Dallas, Texas area.

When they lost one of their drivers to a single-vehicle fatality accident, they knew a DOT audit was coming. What they didn’t know was how severe that accident, coupled with one other recordable accident in a 12 month period, was going to substantially impact their bottom line.

With the exception of the two recordable accidents, Ram Services’ audit was one any company wou

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FMCSA CSA Safety Measurement System Changes

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) Safety Measurement System (SMS) quantifies the on-road safety performance and compliance history of motor carriers to prioritize enforcement resources, determine the safety and compliance problems that a motor carrier may exhibit, and track each motor carrier’s safety. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) designed the SMS expecting that changes would be made as new data, and additional analysis became availa

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