Hunter NelsonOwner of Nelson Insurance Agency

Improve Your Trucking Scores: Unsafe Driving & Speed Limiters!

10 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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This is a short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video (by Hunter Nelson) offering practical advice to trucking operators on lowering inspection/score risks. The speaker highlights unsafe driving as a key metric, recommends using speed limiters and DOT/ELD software to reduce speeding violations, and contrasts short-term scheduling pressures with long-term cost savings. The speaker also notes inspection costs ("200 bucks, 300 bucks") and references fleets of varying sizes ("five trucks or 50 trucks").

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"200 bucks, 300 bucks, depending on the level of the inspection."

A 50 minute long video.

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So if you get a clean Inspection, great. Again, 200 bucks, 300 bucks, depending on the level of the inspection. So a lot of people do that. And I've got guys who, with Amazon, who keep their scores extremely, extremely low because they just created that culture. But let's say you guys are five trucks or 50 trucks, and I try and figure out how to improve. I'll go right here. So the first one right here, I've got unsafe driving. I'm just going to do again, the basics. I want to make a 50 minute long video. Speed limiters is a big thing, dot or eld software. So if you guys got problems speeding, put speed limiters on the truck. I understand that you guys got to get loads to a certain place at a certain time, but you got to think about what's going to cost you more money in the long run. So.