He's not the first to do it, and I doubt he will be the last.

If I had a picture of puppies and kittens next to my name, it wouldn't change the FACTS that I posted.

I prefer the Petercar avatar myself, but the horses butt is amusing. :lol:

They probably got a lower score because of 2 reasons, 1 they started training students, and 2 drivers taking shortcuts. You can preach safety to a driver but what he does out on the road may be different. But if they upper management isnt concerned about safety, neither is anyone else. But I know for a fact how they are about safety I have seen it first hand. I was tarping a load it was snowing really hard and windy and it was late. I had a hard appointment time that I was running tight on due to waiting for shipper. The tarp was so slick I decided it wasnt really a safe thing to tarp it at that time. I called Maverick, they said do not get on the load, bungee it in a few places, we will just have to change the appoinment and you tarp it when you get up in the morning.

And since you like looking up companies and reseaching, check this out, then ask your company is willing to match it.


$10,000 DOT Inspection
A clean DOT inspection equaled a big payday for Maverick driver Lester Carpenter.

Carpenter, a resident of Gore Springs, Miss., won the $10,000 grand prize in Maverick’s Inspection Perfection contest. The contest gave every driver that received a clean DOT inspection in 2004 the chance at the grand prize. At the end of the year, Carpenter’s name was drawn.

Carpenter, who has been with Maverick for eight months, was stunned by his good fortune. “I couldn’t believe it. My wife thought I was playing a joke on her; we were both shocked,” he says. “This is one of those once-in-a-lifetime type things.”

Carpenter plans to use the money to pay off some bills and have fun with the rest.

He says his time with Maverick has been great. “Even before the prize, I’ve really enjoyed working for Maverick,” he says. “They do things the right way, and I get a lot of time at home.”

Maverick created the contest to encourage safety and DOT compliance, the company says.

“People were surprised that we would give $10,000 away, but that is how serious we are about safety and compliance at Maverick,” says Dean Newell, vice president of safety for the Arkansas-based company. “It is always great to be able to give drivers some incentive and reward for doing things the right way.”
--Kristen L. Walters

Oh and something else


Maverick is installing the Iteris Lane Departure Warning System on it’s entire fleet of 1000 trucks. More inside….

The Iteris system is currently in use on over 8,000 commercial trucks in the U.S. and Europe, with more than a billion kilometers traveled so far.

Maverick Transportation, Inc. is a logistics and transportation company headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas, which provides mainly flatbed trucking services. They will begin the deployment of the LDWS in December of this year and expect to have their fleet fully outfitted within one year.

"Maverick is committed to safety and feels that this technology will further enhance our efforts to make our highways safer for both our employees and the driving public.," said Steve Williams, CEO of Maverick and current American Trucking Association (ATA) Chairman. Installing Iteris Lane Departure Warning systems into all of our trucks further demonstrates our commitment to safety."

The decision by Maverick to include Iteris' Lane Departure technology in its fleet of trucks came after months of comprehensive field testing.

The Iteris' LDW System uses a windshield-mounted camera that tracks the lane markings and provides "virtual" rumble strips anywhere there are lane markings. Using image recognition software and proprietary algorithms, the system monitors the relative position of the truck and if it unintentionally crosses the lane markings, the system automatically emits a distinctive rumble strip sound on the appropriate side depending on the direction of travel, alerting the driver to make a correction. Use of the truck's turn signals automatically overrides the system.

“Maverick consistently examines the effectiveness of our safety program and we regularly survey our drivers to determine their satisfaction level and opinion on prospective safety technologies," said Dean Newell, vice president of safety for Maverick. "In fact, one driver recently commented that the Iteris LDW system is the best safety device he has tested. We believe implementing this technology is a good financial investment, but more importantly is the right thing to do."

For more information, visit www.Iteris.com.

The lane departure cost maverick over 1 million to put in their trucks. Id like to know if anyone else on this site reading this has lane departure and Id bet money noone here does. The whole ? is about safety conscious companies, and I said Maverick was, and since you dont work for them, you have to look at a score and judge how safe their upper management is but to turn around and tell me what I see everyday with my own 2 eyes aint gonna happen.