Category Truck Driver Tips

By Chris Harris, Safety Dawg Inc. This is one thing that really bothers me when I’m out on a road test:  The tractor-trailer driver is operating on a highway that has a speed limit of 80km or more. They are…

A report of a driver’s death, caused by a rollover, brings forward the importance to understand what is required to avoid this problem.  Rollovers have become the number one mistake that will take a driver’s life!    This is a totally…

While teaching your student/driver, you’ll need to show them how to correctly use brake lights and turn signals: the two of the most common methods of communicating what we are doing with our vehicles. The most direct way to instill the practice of…

This week’s Tip of the Week takes a different direction. When training, we need to speak to our students or drivers about fatigue. Fatigue has the negative effect of draining a person’s ability to be attentive, alert and responsive to road conditions. Many experienced drivers will…

This Training Tip of the Week will take us down a different road, where we’ll talk about Driver Distractibility! This is an article on a small item that affects more drivers than you would think. The best method is to educate your students about different types…

We are training our students and drivers to be prepared to stop safely in the city when the traffic light turns red. All of us know that the cautionary yellow means STOP, if you can do so safely. It does not mean speed…