A safety director without the salary line.
Smaller fleets often cannot justify a full-time safety director. We run the safety management function on retainer — written policies, driver oversight, monthly reports, and direct audit defense when FMCSA opens an investigation.
49 CFR Part 390 · Safety management controls · CSA / SMS
What this engagement covers.
Authored Safety Management Plan tailored to your fleet and operating territory.
Driver oversight: hire approvals, ongoing performance review, disciplinary recommendations, termination decisions where required.
Monthly safety report covering CSA trajectory, inspection results, accident-register changes, and corrective actions taken.
Direct audit defense — we are the call you make when the FMCSA inspector arrives.
Best for
Who this fits.
- Fleets sized 5–100 power units without an in-house safety director.
- Owner-operators or growing carriers who need the safety function but not the headcount.
- Carriers whose CFO or COO has been informally carrying the safety function and needs to hand it off.
Deliverables
Deliverables.
Safety Management Plan
Written, dated, signed by leadership, reflecting how your fleet actually operates.
Monthly safety report
CSA, inspections, accidents, training, DQ-file health, and any open enforcement matters in one document.
On-call FMCSA audit response
Direct line for the moment FMCSA arrives. Many clients have used this once and consider it the entire reason they signed the retainer.
Quarterly leadership review
Hour-long review with the carrier's ownership and operations leadership. Trajectory, risks, decisions.
How the work runs
How the work runs.
- 01
Onboarding (first 30 days)
Full diagnostic audit, plan authoring, driver-roster review, and integration with your dispatch / HR / ELD systems.
- 02
Steady state
Daily oversight (hires, terminations, inspections, citations). Monthly reports. Quarterly reviews. On-call audit response.
- 03
Annual recalibration
End-of-year re-audit, plan refresh, and budget for the upcoming year.
Want this scoped for your fleet?
The first call is diagnostic, not a pitch.
Tell us where your fleet stands today. We'll tell you what to fix first, what this engagement looks like for you, and whether the work needs us or not.