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What DOT Expects From Construction Fleets (That Nobody Tells You)

One morning for construction safety directors, fleet managers and owners in metro Atlanta. Plain language, real examples, and time for your questions. Coffee and breakfast are on us.

WHENWednesday, November 18, 20269:30 to 10:45 a.m. Doors open at 9:30, the talk starts at 9:45.
WHERE5600 Roswell Road, Building C (Life Time Work)Atlanta, GA 30342. Parking is free in the garage directly across from Life Time Work.
SEATS15 seats, freeA small room on purpose, so every question gets answered.

Most construction companies don’t know DOT applies to them, until an inspector tells them

If your company runs dump trucks, service trucks or pickups pulling equipment trailers, those vehicles may be commercial motor vehicles, under the same DOT safety rules as a trucking company. The test looks at the vehicle, not the business.

And once DOT applies, it isn’t a few forms a year. Every working day, someone has to check every driver’s hours, follow up on every speeding and hard-braking alert, see every defect through to a repair, and catch every license, medical card and permit before it runs out. For a company with 50 trucks, that comes to about 342 hours a month by our estimate. Usually it lands on a safety director who is already stretched across OSHA, training and every job site.

This briefing shows you what DOT expects, in one morning, so you can see where your company stands.

WHO SHOULD COME The person who answers for safety at a construction company. Safety directors and managers, fleet managers, operations managers, and owners of companies that run their own trucks. If DOT has been handed to you on top of everything else, this morning is for you. You’re welcome to bring a teammate.
A construction safety director checks the tie-down on a skid steer trailer hitched to a pickup

What we’ll cover in 30 minutes

PART 1 The moment your company becomes a motor carrier Which of your trucks count, why a pickup pulling a skid steer can bring the same rules as a tractor-trailer, and which drivers need medical cards and driver files even without a CDL.
PART 2 A day of DOT at a 50-truck construction company One ordinary weekday, hour by hour, from the 6 a.m. pre-trips to the defects reported at 4:30. You’ll see why the work never stops, and why so much of it never gets written down.
PART 3 What your public safety record shows, and who’s looking Anyone can pull up your roadside inspection history with your USDOT number, including insurers and the companies that hire you. We’ll show you how to read it the way they do.
PART 4 “We already have software for that” Your systems flag problems all day. Someone still has to handle every one of them and write down what was done. We’ll talk honestly about what software covers and what it can’t.

Then open questions. Bring the ones you’ve never had a good answer to.

The morning

9:30Coffee, breakfast and introductions around the table
9:45The 30-minute talk
10:15Your questions
10:35Sign up for a free DOT Compliance Assessment, if you’d like one
10:45Wrap up, back to your day
Ontaria Read, founder of Prime Fleet Management
YOUR HOST

Ontaria Read, Founder of Prime Fleet Management

Ontaria built Prime Fleet Management because she’d been there: doing DOT on top of everything else, after the real work was done. Today PFM is a DOT compliance department for companies that run trucks, with a Compliance Manager, an Hours of Service Specialist, a Safety Specialist and a Compliance Admin working beside your safety team every day.

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It’s free. You’ll get a confirmation email right away, a reminder the week before, and a note the day before with parking directions.

We’ll record the 30-minute talk so people who can’t make it can watch later. The questions afterward are not recorded.

Can’t make it on the 18th? Book your free DOT Compliance Assessment instead. It takes about 15 minutes, in person, by phone or by video.

We use your details only for this event and to follow up with you about it.

Questions people ask

Is it really free?Yes. The briefing, the breakfast and the parking are free.
Is this a sales pitch?It's a teaching session. At the end we'll offer our free DOT Compliance Assessment for anyone who wants to see where their own company stands. There's no pressure to sign up.
We're not a trucking company. Is this for us?That's exactly who it's for. If your company runs trucks to its own job sites, this morning will show you which DOT rules apply and what they expect.
Can I bring someone from my team?Please do. Save a seat for each person so we have enough breakfast.

15 seats. One morning. A clear picture of what DOT expects.

Wednesday, November 18, 9:30 to 10:45 a.m., at 5600 Roswell Road, Building C (Life Time Work).

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