Safety & compliance
Your record rides with us. We protect it like ours.
A CSA score follows a driver longer than a truck payment. Our safety desk exists so the paperwork side of trucking never costs you the driving side.
How we keep it clean
Compliance is a service here, not a threat.
Hours-of-service, watched
Your ELD is installed and managed by us, and our safety desk monitors logs across the fleet. A developing HOS problem gets a phone call from us before it becomes a roadside citation with your name on it.
Inspections without drama
PrePass bypasses you around most weigh stations on major corridors. When you are inspected, your paperwork is in order because keeping it in order is literally our job.
Insurance under our authority
Liability and cargo coverage run with the Arrow Truckers MC, and the Certificate of Liability Insurance comes with running under our authority. Who pays for what is stated in your lease, as §376.12(j) requires — and coverage on your own tractor is a question to settle in writing at onboarding.
A compliance file that's actually filed
Driver qualification files, drug & alcohol program enrollment, IFTA, annual inspections — maintained centrally, audited internally, ready when the DOT asks.
49 CFR Part 376
The federal rules your lease must follow — cited, not paraphrased.
Truth-in-Leasing regulations exist because owner-operators used to get burned by handshake terms. Every Arrow Truckers lease is written to these sections. Bring the list to your signing and check them off.
§ 376.12(d)
Your compensation — the amount or formula and how it's computed — stated in the lease.
§ 376.12(h)
Every chargeback (deduction) itemized, with the amount or how it's calculated.
§ 376.12(k)
Escrow funds: what they're for, how they earn interest, and when they come back to you.
§ 376.12(g)
When pay is a percentage of revenue, you get copies of the rated freight bill — so you can verify your pay against the real rate.
Full text at ecfr.gov — Title 49, Part 376. We’ll happily walk you through it.
What we ask of you
Safety is a two-way lease.
- Keep the truck DOT-inspection ready — annual inspections are on the calendar, not a surprise
- Run legal hours; the ELD isn't the enemy, the violation is
- Report incidents straight away — bad news early is fixable, bad news late is a claim
- Pre-trip like you mean it. It's your name on the license and our number on the door
For freight shippers
What this safety program means for your freight.
Everything above exists to keep drivers legal and equipment clean — which is exactly what a freight buyer is really asking about when they ask if a carrier is safe.
Legal hours on your load
Our safety desk monitors hours-of-service across the fleet and catches developing problems before they become violations — so the driver on your freight is rested, legal, and not racing a clock they've already run out.
Status without phone tag
Every truck runs an ELD, which is why we can give you pickup, transit, and delivery updates on covered loads — and a named contact who answers instead of a portal.
Vetted drivers, filed paperwork
Driver qualification files, DOT drug & alcohol program enrollment, and annual inspections are maintained centrally and audit-ready. The driver at your dock got there through that file, not around it.
Insurance you can check
Liability and cargo coverage run with our operating authority. Ask the desk for a current Certificate of Insurance before you tender — then verify the authority itself on the FMCSA's public SAFER system.
More shipper questions — claims, detention, tracking, setup — or go straight to requesting capacity.