Are we days or even hours away from a DOT audit...?

What's your MC number. I can look you up and see how your doing. It's not called an audit, it's called an intervention. As an example. If your trucks are being written up for maintenance issues they will want to know what your going to do about it. The owner could say he's going to have every truck gone over by a dealer and fixed. As a follow up the DOT may show up later on and inspect every truck. Or, drivers speeding. They will expect the owner to fire them and hire new drivers. Stuff like that.

 

Company I worked for got an intervention inspection after 35 years in business. A letter was sent with date and time of inspection. It also had a list of everything that was needed for presentation for the inspection. Some of the things it included were: logs, DQ files for all drivers, maintenance records for equipment, the random drug testing procedures and results. They didn't inspect everything but rather randomly picked things out of all that. When all said and done, we got a statement of things that needed attention and a pat on the back. If the 1st inspection didn't go well, they would've came back after a period of time for a follow-up. I'm sure there are a lot of things they'd want to look at but that info should be provided ahead of time. Keep your files in proper order, audit yourself and if you can pass that, then you'll be ok.

 

Part of being in business is knowing the rules and MANAGING your business according to those rules. There really is no excuse for not knowing your driver needed a post accident drug test. You may or may not get an audit but I'd say the drug test issue is going to be a biggie. Also, if you've got problems in the HOS/Fatigued driving basic I'd start shopping for EOBRs because you likely are going to be forced to use them.

 

Well. They will often let bad scores slide until something happens but it seems like that something has happened so I would say you might well get a visit. The company should take the position that they wanted to be pro-active and therefore you were hired to come in and clean house. As for not having the drug testing done....that could be a problem. Best thing you can do is get everything else in order and maybe they will let you slide. Hope for the best but prepare for the worst. They might well yank your authority.

Your boss might want to look into finding a backup plan for his trucking needs. Maybe there is someone within his company that can sever ties with the company and create a new arms length trucking business. This new business will go through the new entrant process and do everything correct from the beginning. That takes time so start now.

 

Not properly filling out the logbook IS a violation of the HOS rules ...You may get a break but depending on who audits you maybe not