This training curriculum is designed to help drivers develop their defensive driving skills and offers up best practices on how to anticipate the potential for danger and avoid it.
Popular DOT & Driver Safety Training Topics
Choose from our popular DOT & driver training topics below or view our full library of transportation training titles in the course library.
Entry-Level Driver Training: Backing and Docking
This Entry-Level Driver Training course is designed to help drivers learn the basics of backing and docking, including safe backing practices and the types of backing maneuvers commonly used.
Defensive Driving for CMV Drivers: Manage Speed and Space
This defensive driving training program helps drivers recognize how to effectively manage speed and space.
Defensive Driving for CMV Drivers: Look
This defensive driving training program helps drivers demonstrate how to look for hazards by scanning the road ahead and using their mirrors.
Distracted Driving Prevention
This training program is designed to help drivers stay focused on the road, recognize the signs of a distracted driver, and understand how to manage distracted drivers.
Roadside Inspections for CMV Drivers
This roadside inspections training prepares your drivers for successful inspections and decreases the chance your vehicles or drivers will be placed out of service.
Hours of Service Training: Basics
This training program covers the fundamentals of hours-of-service regulations and what it means to be regulated.
Reasonable Suspicion Training: Who It Applies To
This training is designed to help driver supervisors understand some of the facts and statistics resulting from alcohol misuse.
Vehicle Inspections: Tractor Trailers
This training helps properly prepare property-carrying CMV drivers for conducting pre-trip, on-the-road and post-trip inspections on standard CMVs.
Alcohol and Drug Testing: What Drivers Need to Know
This training program addresses critical info CMV drivers must be aware of regarding alcohol and drug testing requirements.
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Reasonable Suspicion Training
This Reasonable Suspicion Training curriculum is designed to help driver supervisors understand how to deal with a driver who may be impaired by alcohol and/or drugs. This program fully satisfies the requirements of 49 CFR 382.603.
Entry-Level Driver Training
J. J. Keller’s online ELDT courses will help you exceed the FMCSA’s mandated theory instruction requirements. These interactive, expert-backed programs are designed to be used in tandem with our student and trainer manuals as part of a thorough program.
Hours of Service Training
J. J. Keller’s Hours of Service Training will help you familiarize your drivers with the hours of service regulations, as well as give them an understanding of how hours of service limits affect safety and productivity.
Corrective Action Training
This series of driver training online courses will help you provide concise remedial training on transport safety and compliance topics. Use the online training to help prevent accidents and violations.
Yard Driver Training
The Yard Driver Training curriculum is designed to provide yard drivers (yard jockeys) with the knowledge, skills, and behaviors necessary to operate a yard vehicle safely and in compliance with applicable regulations.
Canada Driver Training
Canada Driver Training helps drivers succeed by teaching them how to operate a commercial motor vehicle (CMV) skillfully and safely. It also helps them understand the regulations that apply to them, be alert and defensive on the road, and provide professional customer service.
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Transportation Safety Training FAQs
There are only a handful of required DOT training topics. They include entry-level driver training, education/instruction on drug and alcohol testing requirements, and training for vehicle inspectors. However, Section 390.3(e) of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) states that:
- Every employer must be knowledgeable of and comply with all regulations contained in the FMCSRs that are applicable to that motor carrier’s operations;
- Every driver and employee must be instructed regarding, and must comply with, all applicable regulations contained in the FMCSRs; and
- All motor vehicle equipment and accessories required by the FMCSRs must be maintained in compliance with all applicable performance and design criteria set forth in the FMCSRs.
Motor carriers can help meet these requirements by having a comprehensive training program.
Though a motor carrier cannot be cited for not training on a specific topic, not training a driver can have consequences if violations are cited.
Civil penalties (fines) are determined based on limits stated in the regulations and consideration of information available at the time the claim is made. This information includes history of prior offenses, degree of culpability, and other matters as justice or public safety may require.
This is where proof of training is very important. Having and documenting training for drivers may not absolve a motor carrier of all fines and penalties, but it can help minimize their severity.
When it comes to “non-required” training, general topics to consider as part of your training program include driver orientation, the regulations, driving skills, and workplace safety. Hours of service, vehicle inspection, and cargo securement are just some of the regulatory topics that should be addressed on a regular basis.
All drivers, including your veteran drivers, can benefit from a review of driving skills. Over time, poor driving habits or incorrect skills can develop, causing a greater risk for accidents, incidents, and near misses.
A review of driving techniques such as backing procedures and turning, as well as procedural issues such as driving in adverse weather conditions and operating at night, are examples of driver training courses that should be delivered on a regular basis.
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