Real-world guidance for safer fleets
Practical fleet safety. Grounded in real experience.
Clear guidance shaped by more than 20 years across roadside enforcement, FMCSA investigations, and insurance safety.
Make fleet safety clearer, more practical, and more useful.
Fleet Safety Lane helps motor carriers and safety professionals look beyond paperwork and understand the operational decisions, habits, and weak points that create risk.
The goal is not to add noise or repeat regulations. It is to translate experience into guidance people can use—to prevent crashes, improve accountability, and build safer operations.
About Jeremy Croft
One career. Three views of fleet safety.
I have spent more than 20 years working in commercial motor vehicle safety—as a State Trooper conducting roadside enforcement, an FMCSA Safety Investigator evaluating carrier operations, and an insurance safety professional helping fleets recognize risk earlier.
Those roles taught me that a regulation can identify a problem, but it rarely tells the whole story. Fleet Safety Lane is where I share the lessons behind the rulebook in plain language.
Connect with Jeremy on LinkedInFrom the publication
Ideas for the people responsible for what happens next.
Safety management
When the File Is Clean but the Story Isn’t
Why clean records can create false confidence—and why the story behind the paperwork matters more.
Read on Substack 02Operations
When Safety Has the Title but Dispatch Has the Power
Why written authority and actual operating authority are often two very different things inside a motor carrier.
Read on Substack 03Risk intelligence
Before the Rear-End Crash: 4 Warning Signs Carriers Should Not Ignore
Four signals that can surface before a preventable rear-end crash—and what carriers can do with them.
Read on SubstackMilepost Transport
Fleet-safety lessons, told through the operation of a fictional motor carrier.
Milepost Transport is an ongoing story-based series that puts the ideas discussed in Fleet Safety Lane into real-world situations. Some episodes accompany a Sunday article, showing how an operational weakness can develop inside a carrier—and what happens next.
New episodes Tuesdays
Interactive challenge · 001Try something practical
Five items need attention before this truck moves.
Take a proper look around the truck, select what you see, and review the explanation behind each item. No timer. No carrier score. Just practical walkaround awareness.
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