Fractional DOT Safety Manager
I ran DOT safety and compliance for a 380-driver fleet inside a 1,300-employee distribution division. Before that I drove for it — seventeen years, Class A, clean. Now I do that job for fleets too small to hire someone full time.
Get a free file reviewWhy bring in an outsider
Most fleets already know which supervisors run loose. The data usually says so plainly. What stops anything from happening isn't the data — it's that the person holding it has to work alongside the people it indicts, and has a career sitting in the same building.
A supervisor scorecard is easy to build. Getting it to change behavior is the hard part, and it fails inside far more often than it fails on the math.
What I've actually built
Every one of these was built from nothing, because nobody asked for it and nobody else was going to.
Pulled behavior events against actual incident history to find which ones predicted a wreck and which ones were noise. Harsh turns and following distance separated the incident drivers from everyone else by a wide margin. Coaching went where the loss was, instead of where the alert volume was.
Incident rate broken out by supervisor, not just by driver. The spread between the best and worst teams was enormous and had been invisible for years. Safety stopped being one person's department and became a number each leader owned.
Every incident classified, sourced, and trended — then turned into written recommendations and corrective action plans for senior leadership. The point was never the report. The point was which three things to fix first.
Driver qualification files, Hours of Service and ELD records, post-accident and random testing, drug and alcohol program, FMCSA Clearinghouse. The paperwork that decides how an audit goes before the auditor ever shows up.
Root cause worked from telematics, video, and the driver's own account — documented the way it needs to read two years later when a plaintiff's attorney is holding it.
How it works
A full-time safety manager runs $95,000–$115,000 loaded. That math doesn't work until you're somewhere north of forty trucks. Below that it's the owner, the owner's wife, or nobody — and "nobody" is who most fleets have.
I watch your CSA scores, flag what's moving the wrong direction, and tell you what to fix before it becomes an inspection problem. Monthly review call.
The real thing. DQ file management, HOS review, incident investigation, driver coaching documentation, supervisor accountability reporting, and audit prep. You get a safety department without a salary line.
New entrant audit prep. Post-audit corrective action. DQ file rebuild from scratch. Fixed scope, fixed price, defined end date.
Who you're hiring
Twenty-four years in commercial food distribution, all of it at one company, working up from the driver's seat.
Most people selling fleet safety are ex-enforcement, attorneys, or a call center reading from a script. That's a different job than the one your drivers do. I know what a fourteen-hour day actually looks like, why a driver skips the pre-trip when he's already late, and which rules get broken quietly. Recommendations from someone who's been in the seat land differently — with your drivers and with an auditor.
Start here
Pick your messiest driver qualification file and email it to me. I'll go through it against the FMCSA requirements and walk you through what's missing on a call this week. No charge, no obligation. If you never call me again, you still end up with one clean file.