Worry-Free DOT Compliance

Let LaPorte CSA take the burden of ensuring your company is complying with all of the DOT’s regulations off your shoulders.  Our consultants are experts in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations and have years of experience consulting with trucking companies in finding cost-effective means to fully comply with all regulations.  Whether it’s through a one-time Mock Audit or through out-sourcing your safety department’s functions to us, LaPorte CSA can be your one-stop source for worry-free DOT compliance.  Click here for more.

CSA Strategies

By all accounts, CSA is a game-changer for the trucking industry, and you need a strategy to survive and thrive in this new regulatory paradigm.  LaPorte CSA offers a comprehensive CSA program, including but not limited to responding to FMCSA inquiries, driver fitness monitoring and scoring, BASIC score monitoring and reduction strategies, driver and employee training to reduce adverse roadside inspections, Data Q challenges, and accident reduction strategies.  Click here for more.

Risk Management

Let’s face it, complying with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations is just one part of an effective Safety and Risk Management Program, and its just one part of LaPorte CSA’s comprehensive Risk Management and Loss Control services.  Don’t be the company with a transportation contract limiting your cargo claim exposure to $250,000 while you only have $100,000.00 in cargo insurance.  A thorough LaPorte CSA risk evaluation and recommendations on risk, claims handling, and loss control can reduce your exposure and save your company money.  Click here for more.

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Evaluation of Owner/Operator and Fleet Owner Program

 

LaPorte CSA, in association with its affiliated law firm, LaPorte & Associates, P.C., can review a trucking company’s use of owner-operators to protect against the owner-operator being deemed to be an employee and limit the motor carrier’s exposure to uninsured workers’ compensation and other claims. This review involves:

  • Review of Owner/Operator Agreement
    • Compliance with Truth-in-Leasing Regulations
    • Does the agreement’s terms preserve or threaten the independent contractor relationship?
    • Adequacy of indemnification and insurance provisions
    • Adequacy of Termination/Modification provisions
    • Non-compete/non-solicitation
  • Workers’ Compensation Liability Exposure
    • Is some form of insurance required that protects the motor carrier in the event an owner/operator of driver for a fleet owner files a claim?
    • Review of Certificates of Insurance
  • Bobcat/Unladen Exposure
    • Is some form of insurance required?
    • Review of Certificates of Insurance?

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