Safety & Compliance
The acronym we teach to help remember the Five Keys of the Smith System.
What is All Good Kids Like Milk (or Money)?
The year PGT Services was founded as a separate legal entity.
What is 2020?
The maximum number of hours can you drive a CMV in a single 14 hour window.
What is 11?
The colloquial term for a coil loaded such that the eye is pointing forward.
What is shotgun?
The max legal weight for a CMV without a permit.
What is 80,000 lbs?
The year PGT Trucking was founded.
What is 1981?
The maximum window of hours in which a driver can work without taking a 10 hour break before driving again.
What is 14?
Loads of length require this amount of securement at minimum in the first 10 feet.
What is 2?
The full name of the FMCSA.
What is the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration?
This MLB player was incorrectly called as "safe" on a play at home plate in 1992
Who is Sid Bream?
The number 1 cause of CMV accidents.
What is distracted driving?
The minimum number of chains needed to properly secure a suicide coil weighing 41,328 lbs.
What is 5?
The max legal height for a CMV.
What is 13'6"
The name of the logistics company founded by Pat in 1992.
What is PLS?
The term for an extremely large jury award that could put a trucking company out of business.
What is a nuclear verdict?
The product name for a master coil that has been sliced into narrower sections. This commodity is likely to shift if not secured with choker chains.
What are slit coils?
The online database that gives employers, the FMCSA, law enforcement personnel information about CDL holders’ drug and alcohol program violations. An estimated 60,000 CDL holders are have been removed from driving since implementation in 2019.
What is the Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse?
The South American city in which Trucking and Service's Lean Staffing teams are based. This partnership began in 2019.
What is Barranquilla, Colombia?
The legal cause for the liability to which a freight broker exposes itself when it knew, or should have known, that the carrier was “unfit” to perform the job, so as to create danger to third parties.
What is Negligent Retention or Selection?
What is 14?