Compliance — The Backbone

Learn to vet, verify and stay legal before you ever transact. Required core plus optional go-deeper tracks that never block certification.

0 of 11 required lessons

—Why compliance protects your businessCoreComing —How to check a carrierCoreComing —How to verify a brokerBrokerComing —What drivers must have — how to check a driverDriver & CDLComing —The yearly filing calendar — UCR, MCS-150, IRP, IFTA and 2290Trucking companyComing —Insurance and authority — what "active" really meansCoreComing —Spotting fraud — double-brokering and chameleon carriersCoreComing —Lease-on basics — what an investor must verifyInvestorComing —Driver qualification files and surviving a DOT auditTrucking companyComing —Broker recordkeeping and the 3-year ruleBrokerComing —Compliance knowledge checkCoreComing

Go deeper — optional

Take these as far as you want. None of them are required, and none of them will ever hold up your certificate. A Professional Logistics Service Provider needs to know how to check a driver — not how to be one. But if you want to know, it is here.

Driver & CDL

—Pre-trip inspection, step by stepOptionalComing —Hours of Service in full — logs, resets and the 14-hour windowOptionalComing —The DOT medical card and the National RegistryOptionalComing —CDL school prep — what to expect and how to passOptionalComing

Trucking company

—CSA scores and the seven BASICs, in depthOptionalComing

Broker

—Bonds and the BMC-84 in fullOptionalComing

Investor

—Reading a management company's compliance recordOptionalComing

What this module hands youThe ability to transact without getting burned.