What he stands for
Standing up for professional drivers
The trucking industry measures drivers by their records. Justin Seyl's work starts from the view that those records should be accurate, that drivers should get a fair hearing, and that the rules should be explained to the people who have to follow them.
1. An accurate record
Roadside inspections, crashes and citations feed federal and state databases that carriers check before they hire. Errors happen: a violation assigned to the wrong driver, a crash that was not preventable counted against a carrier, a citation dismissed in court that still shows on the inspection report. FMCSA's DataQs system exists to correct those errors, and Justin's companies have filed more than 100,000 DataQs challenges. A correction can change whether a driver gets the next job.
2. A fair hearing on every citation
For a commercial driver, a ticket is never just a fine. Under federal rules, two serious traffic violations in three years disqualify a CDL holder from driving a commercial vehicle for 60 days, and states may not mask or defer a CDL holder's conviction. That is why CDL Consultants works with defense attorneys in all 50 states, so every driver can contest a citation in the court that issued it.
3. Knowledge of the rules
Most violations come from not knowing a rule, not from ignoring it. Hours of Service limits, the 30-minute break, medical certificate deadlines and Clearinghouse queries are all learnable. As the Safety Scientist, Justin explains them in short videos, and his written guides are free at justinseyl.info.
4. Safety that prevents the next crash
Defending a record is half the job. The other half is preventing the event that creates it. CDL 360, where Justin is CEO, builds written safety programs, driver training and audit readiness for fleets, so the safest choice is also the routine one.