You need to check that the trailer lights are working synchronized with the truck’s lights.
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A common reason for light failure is
Grounding – A bad trailer ground is a common reason that lights don’t work or work sometimes on the truck or the trailer. If you’ve noticed that sometimes your lights flickering, you need to know that the reason is a bad ground between the truck and trailer.
Install GPS to monitor driver behavior
Follow your truckers behavior and keeping him legal on the road with GPS monitoring. GPS monitoring gives you great features for trucking every move your truck driver is doing like:
- starts and stops of the trucks
- operating for extended driving periods
- broken limited speed regulations
- idling
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If you know the correct information you can stop bad behavior and you can protect your company from penalties and bad safety reports.
Watch the truck weight
State law establishes a maximum gross weight and axle weight limits for different types of trucks or vehicle-trailer depending of the number of axles, axle spacing…
