How it goes today
A courier company of about 90 employees, with about 30 trucks under federal driving rules, is hiring one person to read every driver's logs and camera clips. Here is how a record goes unexplained while the queue waits, what went wrong for others, and a build that sorts and files every morning but changes no log on its own.
On 27 August 2026 a courier company in Indianapolis, over 40 years old and running 24/7, posted a job for a DOT safety and compliance specialist. The list starts with the daily review: “Review daily Hours of Service (HOS) violations and identify non-compliance trends.” Then: “Review and assign unassigned driving events to the appropriate drivers for verification and approval,” and “Review inward and outward-facing camera events to identify coaching opportunities”. The same person also runs yard inspections, onboarding and the safety reports.
Here is how it goes without help. At 5:40am on a Monday a driver starts truck 14 before logging in and drives 22 miles to the first pickup. At 7:15am the cab camera flags the driver as distracted. It was sun glare. The specialist is at a yard inspection, with the weekend's clips still waiting.
On Thursday afternoon the specialist reaches Monday. The 22 miles are under nobody's name, and the driver cannot remember the drive, so the note says “driver error”. The glare clip gets a coaching talk. Three weeks later a roadside inspector sees the unexplained miles and writes a false-log violation.
Nobody here is careless. One person reads about 750 driver-days a month in the order they arrived, between other duties, so Monday's miles wait until Thursday and every clip looks as urgent as every other. Federal rules say each unassigned stretch must be given to a driver or explained, and an incomplete record can be fined up to $15,846 (the maximum).
Truck 14, the times, the glare and the citation are an example. The 750 driver-days and the 80 hours a month are estimates the company's own counts replace.