Safety advocacy · Libertyville, Illinois
Safer roads start with the people who drive them.
Justin Seyl has spent his career in commercial transportation safety. He is a NATMI Certified Director of Safety, a board member of the American Truck Drivers Safety Association, and, on TikTok, the Safety Scientist. His work rests on one idea: a professional driver deserves a safety record that is accurate, and the knowledge to keep it that way.
Knowledge
Drivers and small carriers should understand the rules that govern them. As the Safety Scientist, Justin explains DOT and FMCSA rules in plain language.
Accuracy
A wrong entry in a driver's inspection history can follow them to every job application. Justin's companies have handled more than 100,000 DataQs challenges to correct the record.
Prevention
The best violation is the one that never happens. Training, safety programs and audit readiness keep drivers and fleets ahead of problems.
Why this work matters
A commercial driver's livelihood depends on records most people never see: the motor vehicle record, the Pre-Employment Screening Program report, the Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse and a carrier's CSA scores. Carriers check those records before every hire. When an entry is wrong, or a driver does not know their rights, a career can stall over paperwork.
Justin founded CDL Consultants in 2012 to defend drivers in that system. Since then his companies have reviewed more than 650,000 commercial driver citations. That experience shapes everything on this site: practical safety, fair records and drivers who know the rules as well as the people enforcing them.
Stay Safe.
That is Justin's sign-off, and it is the point of all of it.