Trucking Compliance & Safety Seminars

The California Trucking Association provides trucking compliance and safety training to members and non-members. Invest in training and allow our certified trainers to help you and your company better understand complex regulations, stay in compliance and thrive in a highly competitive industry.

Trucking compliance seminars are conducted in Northern and Southern California.

We can come to you. CTA also offers private consultations to help make sure your company is in compliance. For more information on private consultations or questions on seminars, contact Heather Oneto at 916-373-3500 or honeto@caltrux.org.

NATMI Certified Driver Training (CDT) Program

This train-the-trainer course is for professionals responsible for the development and implementation of professional driver training programs. Students learn teaching skills and their practical application. In addition, students will have the opportunity to present their own lesson plans with critique following.

Full Certification
NATMI or CTA Member/Non-Member: $900

Two-day course only
NATMI or CTA Member: $480
Non-Member: $580

NATMI CSS and CDS Fleet Safety Courses

This “Fleet Safety 101” program is designed to provide training on effective implementation of safety-related policies and procedures. A training requirement for NATMI’s safety certification program, this course is designed for line-level safety supervisors, with the basic emphasis on what they need to do and when and how to do it. Managers of small fleets and experienced safety professionals seeking a refresher on technical issues will find this course helpful as well.

Full certification
NATMI or CTA Member/Non-Member: $1,295

Courses Only:
MFSB 2-day course only
NATMI or CTA Member: $480
Non-Member: $580

MMFSP 2-day course only
NATMI or CTA Member: $480
Non- Member: $580

Both courses (no certification)
NATMI or CTA Member: $880
Non-Member: $1,080

DOT A-Z Mini Course

Drug and Alcohol Supervisor Reasonable Suspicion Training

FMCSR Title 49 CFR Overview

HazMat

This basic course is training pursuant to Title 49 CFR Part 172.704 for the trucking industry. Employers must ensure that each employee is trained initially within 90 days of employment. We will cover general requirements, hazmat tables, shipping papers, packaging, marking and labeling, placarding, loading, emergency response and security. Hazmat certification is required every 36 months.

CTA Member: $149
Non-Member: $249

How to Do a Proper 90 Day/DOT Annual Inspection

Managing & Maintaining a Safety & Compliance Program

This seminar will provide methods for managing and maintaining an effective safety and compliance program in the trucking industry, including communication techniques, planning and presenting safety meetings, leadership skills, time-management, accident/incident prevention and investigation, and managing programs specifically required by regulation. The emphasis will be on making a very tough job less stressful.

CTA Member: $149
Non-Member: $249

Sailing Through Your BIT

This class is a training seminar that will assist companies with understanding and preparing for BIT audits. The material will be covered in-depth and a BIT Kit will be provided to each paid attendee. Specifically, this seminar will provide the member with a complete overview of the basic inspection process of terminals and will emphasize the four most frequent problem areas: Driver Qualification, Discipline, Hours of Service, and Maintenance.

CTA Member: $149
Non-Member: $249

Hours of Service (HOS) (Title 49 CFT, Part 395)

This seminar is an excellent way to become proactive and to protect your company and drivers against the costly results of HOS violations. You will be provided with understandable, real-world training on the federal hours-of-service regulations, the proper use of driver logs, how to effectively audit logs and tips to manage your ELD program. You'll participate in driver log reviews and exercises; learn how to train your drivers to log legally, and to identify inaccurate entries and false logs. In addition, you'll learn key issues that raise red flags for enforcement and investigators, as well as receive an update on recent and pending changes to the regulations. Registration includes a packet of reference material. California intrastate hours of service rules, Title 13 CCR 1212 are also discussed. A Certificate of Training will be presented to attendees upon completion of the course.

CTA Member: $149
Non-Member: $249