Passing Your New Entrant Safety Audit
Prepare for the audit every new carrier faces in its first year
What you’ll learn
35 self-paced lessons · One-time price · Certificate of completion · Access never expires
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This course covers the New Entrant Safety Audit end to end: when it happens and why the audit deadline and the monitoring period are two different clocks, the two entirely different ways an audit can be failed, the sixteen violations that fail one on their own, the documents an auditor asks to see, and what to do if the result is a failure. The course is organized into six modules of short lessons, followed by a final quiz.
What the audit is and when it happens
5 lessons
- 1The audit you did not schedule
- 2Two clocks, not one
- 3How you find out
- 4On-site and off-site audits
- 5What can bring your audit forward
The two ways to fail
5 lessons
- 1A documents test, not a driving test
- 2Two entirely different ways to fail
- 3The points system, in plain terms
- 4What the three-factor rule actually means
- 5Two factors that work differently
The sixteen automatic failures
6 lessons
- 1How to read this list
- 2Drug and alcohol, five of the sixteen
- 3Drivers and licensing, five of the sixteen
- 4Insurance, two of the sixteen
- 5Vehicles and out-of-service, three of the sixteen
- 6The two with a threshold
What the auditor asks for
7 lessons
- 1The general shape
- 2Driver qualification files
- 3Drug and alcohol program records
- 4Hours of service records
- 5Vehicle maintenance and inspections
- 6Insurance and the accident register
- 7If you haul hazmat or passengers
The audit itself
5 lessons
- 1Preparing before the notice arrives
- 2A self-audit is the cheapest thing you can do
- 3The off-site audit
- 4The on-site audit
- 5Getting your result
If you fail
7 lessons
- 1What failure actually means
- 2The corrective action plan
- 3The deadlines
- 4Extensions
- 5If you do not act
- 6Re-applying
- 7What you can do now
Final Quiz
Covers the whole course