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Entries for October 2010

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Individual driver CSA 2010 records are now available through the FMCSA’s Pre-Employment Screening Program (PSP). The report includes 5 years of accident data and 3 years of roadside inspection data. There is a fee of $10 for each report. We encourage all drivers to check their records for accuracy! If you have any questions or need help, please contact the Safety Department in Murfreesboro, TN.  
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Open enrollment will end on 10/31/10 so you need to make sure you don't miss the opportunity to review your current selections and make any changes that will benefit you and your family in the coming year.  If you've already met with an enroller, then you're golden, but if not, you can still call the CALL CENTER at (866) 310-3992 Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST until Friday 10/29/10.  You can also GO ONLINE and self-enroll at: https://harmonyenroll.coloniallife.com.  Once there you will be asked for a user name and a password.  Your User Name is: ...


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Effective 10/21/2010, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is banning text messaging by commercial motor vehicle drivers. Drivers who fail to comply with this rule may face civil penalties and may even be disqualified from driving CMV’s in the future!  
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October 17-23, 2010 the CVSA and FMCSA will be promoting commercial driver safety through the Operation Safe Driver campaign. Through enforcement and education of both commercial and non-commercial drivers the CVSA hopes to improve the safety performance of everyone on the road. Look out for increased roadside inspections and enforcement of dangerous traffic violations such as failure to wear seat belts and aggressive driving. Don’t give them a reason to stop you!
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I wanted to remind everyone that you may increase your voluntary life insurance by $10,000.00 without providing evidence of insurability.  You may elect coverage up to five (5) times your annual income, but only $10,000.00 of your new elected amount is what is known as guaranteed issue.  Anything more than $10,000.00 will require you to submit a form known as an Evidence of Insurability form (EOI) to Reliance Standard.  If you meet with a benefit counselor during your location's meetings, if you attempt to elect an increase of more than $10,000.00 the benefit counselor...


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Open enrollment for the 2011 benefit year is well under way.  Meetings are taking place at all locations with 10 or more employees, the call center is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. ET to 5:00 p.m. ET, and the self-enroll online site is available again this year.  All full-time employees have received packets at their homes outlining the benefits offered for 2011.  The call center number is 1-866-310-3992.  The call center is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time through October 29th.  To view and print benef...


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In response to Mr. Green's comment on this post: All employees are subject to the waiting period for electing enrollment in medical Plan 2, however it is actually a fourteen month waiting period that is unique to each employee, and the employee's hire date drives the eligibility date to move to Plan 2.  Once an employee has been on Plan 1 for a year he or she will receive a letter from the Benefit department offering the opportunity to move to Plan 2.  This is outside, and independent of the annual open enrollment. Any questions about eligibility, open enro...


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Looks like some of you have been getting emails from us with no real content in the body. This is certainly not by design, but the good news is we believe this to now be resolved.  Please accept our apologies for this and any confusion we caused.
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Yesterday we got some feedback from Russell - a 14 yr. driver out of Cleveland, TN - regarding his eagerness to get his dispatch via email and a problem he found while testing it out. Through conversation with him we were able to determine that the messages were delivered to his email account but they were sitting in his spam box. This is course is not a good thing to have happen, but we are happy to say we think the cause for this behavior has been located and corrected. However, we wanted to share this with you in case you too are not getting the emails as you would expe...


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The DOT’s new safety program will be going nation wide in December of this year! The Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010, or CSA 2010, will maintain a drivers record for 3 years. As a driver you can manage this record by staying out of accidents and by getting clean DOT inspections. Remember, warnings count the same as citations under the new program. Manage your record – it will stay with you for 3 years!  
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Have you ever wished you had access to your dispatch sooner or wished you could get the information when you are away from your truck? A little while ago we released a tool on our website that is designed to give you this information here at www.firstfleetinc.com. This service has been well received because it provides enhanced information such as phone numbers, directions on file, etc - but - it requires that you be near a computer and it isn't designed to push this information to you as soon as possible. To address this item we are happy to announce an optional service that is des...


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