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Preventing Driver Injuries This Fall and Winter

Preventing Driver Injuries This Fall and Winter

Slip/Trip and Fall injuries are drivers’ most common type of injury. Most of them occur during the winter months. Thousands of professional drivers are seriously injured annually due to not paying attention to winter conditions. Working on the ice...

CVSA’s Brake Safety Week Scheduled for Aug. 20-26

CVSA’s Brake Safety Week Scheduled for Aug. 20-26

CVSA’s Brake Safety Week Scheduled for Aug. 20-26 The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) has scheduled this year’s Brake Safety Week for Aug. 20-26 with a focus on brake lining/pad violations. During Brake Safety Week, commercial motor...

Proactive vs. Reactive Safety and Loss Control Programs

Proactive vs. Reactive Safety and Loss Control Programs

Which One Do You Have? At the end of the year you should be evaluating your safety and loss control program to determine your performance over the year. Where do you stand compared to last year and the year before? Ongoing analysis programs are...

Hypertension and Drivers

Hypertension and Drivers

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health reports that 26% of truck drivers say they have hypertension. Even with high blood pressure, you may still be able to drive. Truck drivers with high blood pressure must take steps to lower...

Clearinghouse Return-to-Duty Process for CDL Drivers

Clearinghouse Return-to-Duty Process for CDL Drivers

A driver with a drug and alcohol program violation is prohibited from performing safety-sensitive functions, including operating commercial motor vehicles, for any DOT-regulated employer until the driver has completed the return-to-duty (RTD)...

30 Tips for Driving Safely in Extreme Summer Weather

30 Tips for Driving Safely in Extreme Summer Weather

Tips for Extreme Weather like Tornados, Hurricanes, Flooding, Severe Thunderstorms and Lightning Use a rain repellent on your windshield, side windows, and mirrors to clear standing raindrops. Build a car emergency kit. At the very least, have a...

Summer Forecast 2023 – Extreme Heat & Humidity

Summer Forecast 2023 – Extreme Heat & Humidity

Heat and your Truck For drivers to operate a commercial motor vehicle (CMV) safely, they also need to understand how heat affects the operation of the CMV. Two areas that drivers must pay attention to during their inspections are the engine coolant...

Make Sure Your MCS 150 Up to Date

Make Sure Your MCS 150 Up to Date

The FMCSA requires all interstate carriers to file a MCS-150 or MCS-150B, if a Safety permit is required, every 24 months based on the last two digits of the US DOT number.  The last digit of the number dictates the month and the second to last...

5 Risks of Driving While Using a Mobile Phone

5 Risks of Driving While Using a Mobile Phone

There are several types of driver distraction: Visual – takes your eyes off the road. This can include looking for something in the vehicle, electronic devices or reading advertising along the road. Manual – takes your hands off the wheel. Smoking,...

Schools are Letting Out! Proceed with Caution!

Schools are Letting Out! Proceed with Caution!

With Summer almost here, many of us are looking forward to spending more time outdoors. Many schools will be letting out in the next couple of weeks.   There will be many children going to and from, and participating in, outdoor activities...

Tips! Preventing a Single Vehicle Accident

Tips! Preventing a Single Vehicle Accident

A single-vehicle accident is any driving mishap where only one vehicle is involved. This can include veering off the road and hitting a tree, a rollover crash, or damage caused by animals or debris on the road. Bad weather, poor visibility, and...

Operation Safe Driver Week 2023

Operation Safe Driver Week 2023

Shifting the focus slightly from vehicles to drivers, this year’s Operation Safe Driver Week will be held from July 9th through the 15th. During this week, law enforcement will be in heightened alert for any commercial or passenger vehicles driving...

New Out-of-Service Criteria from CVSA

New Out-of-Service Criteria from CVSA

Annually, the CVSA’s changes to the existing Out-of-Service Criteria (OOSC) are approved in October and take effect the following April 1st; this year is no exception. Here are the changes for 2023: False Logs – Clarification is given as to whether...

Cumberland Earns 2022 IC Bus Dealer of the Year Award

Cumberland Earns 2022 IC Bus Dealer of the Year Award

IC Bus® Announces 2022 Dealer of the Year and Pursuit of Excellence Award Winners LISLE, Ill. (March 29, 2023) –IC Bus® recognized Cumberland CEO Terry Minor as the 2022 IC Bus Dealer of the Year. Every year, IC Bus awards one dealer for their top...

1.4 Million Meals for our Tennessee Neighbors

1.4 Million Meals for our Tennessee Neighbors

Feed America First's Dancing with the Nashville Stars Recap In case you missed it - Last month, Calleigh Minor participated in the Feed America First "Dancing with the Nashville Stars" dance competition and fundraiser. Feed America First is a...

Origins of Cumberland Name and Core Values

Origins of Cumberland Name and Core Values

Ever wonder where the Cumberland name and Core Values come from? Hear from CEO, Terry Minor on the origins. History of Cumberland Name and Core Values In picking a name, we picked Cumberland, which is the river that runs through the main part of...

Cumberland Awarded 2022 Presidential Award

Cumberland Awarded 2022 Presidential Award

CUMBERLAND EARNS PRESTIGIOUS PRESIDENTIAL AWARD Award honors top performing International® Truck dealerships in the United States and Canada NASHVILLE, TN – March 3, 2023 – Cumberland International Trucks, a local International Truck commercial...

Saint Patrick’s Day Drunk Driving Prevention – March 17

Saint Patrick’s Day Drunk Driving Prevention – March 17

St Patrick’s Day is one of the deadliest holidays on our nation’s roads.  Buzzed Driving is Drunk Driving This year, St. Patrick’s Day — March 17, 2023 — falls on a Friday. The celebratory day is one of the biggest drinking occasions of the year,...

CSA Prioritization Preview Website Now Available

CSA Prioritization Preview Website Now Available

As the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has announced proposed changes to its Safety Measurement System, used to identify and prioritize at risk motor carriers for enforcement and compliance interventions, the agency has also noted that...

Daylight Savings Time Begins this Sunday, March 12th!

Daylight Savings Time Begins this Sunday, March 12th!

Start now to ensure all your drivers know about the daylight savings time on March 12, 2023. Caution route drivers, especially that the amount of daylight will change according to their stops with the change. Also, remember to change the batteries...