New Partnership Program for Members
WSTA has recently partnered with Regulis to help members save 10+ hours per week and thousands per year by automating compliance and safety and all the related tasks – things like DQ files, state / federal filings, and maintenance schedules.
WSTA assists members directly with many regulatory requirements of being a motor carrier such as updating your DOT number, small-fleet CARB CTC registration and even the federal New Entrant Safety audits (and we don’t charge members a fee).
The one thing we do not assist with is what is often termed managing the “back office.” This includes all sorts of primarily paperwork tasks such as maintaining up-to-date driver qualifications files, maintenance records, and compliance with hours-of-service records. Much of the required paperwork retention is part of having proper safety management in-place.
Lately, we have seen an uptick in members failing their safety audits, oftentimes because they have not properly maintained the required records mandated by regulation. We have always provided members with many of the required template forms they must maintain. The failures we are seeing are happening primarily with small motor carriers, especially owner-operators. It may seem weird that a one-truck operator must keep an employment application on file for themselves, but it is required.
Backoffice tasks can be tedious because of the paperwork. Worse, is forgetting when you need to renew or update something. For instance, we often aid members whose motor carrier permit expired, mostly because the expiration date went unnoticed. A “teaser” system that could let you know things like expiration dates and even save log-in information for various websites you often go to (FMCSA, Clearinghouse, DIR, CARB, etc.) could assist you in avoiding the frustration that comes with missing those dates.
Our new partnership is with regulis.ai. There are numerous articles in the trucking media about larger entities using AI to improve their motor carrier operations. For many smaller motor carriers, it can be difficult to see a “value proposition” in that technology. Regulis uses AI as part of its platform and allows the user to ask any sorts of compliance questions to get the answer. For instance, what is CARB’s Clean Truck Check (CTC)?
A cool feature of the platform is the ability to take a picture of a driver’s license to upload for DQ files and their system will automatically populate the driver centric information on the required forms, no need for manual entry of data!
The platform is available in multiple languages.
All members taking advantage of this partnership will get a 20% discount on the cost of subscribing.
