Prevent Compliance Audit Failure

FMCSA auditors have you in their sights. But with JFM Compliance Online —

You can survive a DOT audit — or avoid it altogether.

Convenient and affordable, our online compliance tool organizes your required records so you can respond quickly to a records request.

  • Performs initial screening, documented with MVRs, CDLIS, PSP, Clearinghouse inquiries
  • Offers hundreds of online, documented driver training and re-training modules
  • Keeps your records of equipment maintenance with receipts
  • Reminds you of required updating on personnel and equipment

JFM Compliance also takes your motor carrier operations from setup through onboarding and then continued success for you, your drivers and company operations.

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How to survive or avoid an audit

Sign on to JFM Compliance , which will bring your company up to standards on all necessary regulations. You know trucking attorney Jim Mahoney for his regulatory, operational, and strategic contract advice. 

Now you will be able to improve your CSA scores, hire drivers easily - JFM Compliance takes the app and does the initial screening – documented with MVRs, CDLIS, PSP, Clearinghouse inquiries; provide hundreds of online, documented driver training and re-training modules; we will also keep your records of equipment maintenance with receipts and remind you of required updating on personnel and equipment.

JFM Compliance takes your motor carrier operations from setup through onboarding and then continued success for you, your drivers and company operations. It is true compliance on a personal scale with regular legal advice on the myriad current and future regulations promulgated by the DOT/FMCSA.

Our program charges monthly driver fees per active driver and active equipment only. Not only is it less costly that the behemoth compliance companies to whom you are only one of thousands, but you have the benefit of trucking attorney Jim Mahoney's more than 30 years in the industry, with cost-effective up-to-date legal advice, operational advice, first response crash advice, and contract writing with shippers, brokers, company drivers and owner-operators.

In addition to maintaining all required vehicle maintenance records, with JFM Compliance you can upload corresponding receipts as well as an accident log, use our completed driver application and mandated inquiry results to make final hiring decisions. We maintain Driver Qualification (DQ) files, monitor required annual MVRs, and Clearinghouse reviews.

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Affordable Pricing

This program is super-simple and is priced at $24 per month per driver file and $6 per month per active piece of equipment.

Pricing varies for new hire application and reports (PSP, Clearinghouse, CDLIS, prior employment, MVRs), but the maximum cost is $37 per applicant.

We will hold the records on drivers and equipment no longer in service for the required regulatory time periods at no additional charge.

There is no charge for us to maintain records on your terminated drivers or equipment for the years required; thus, the system continues to work for you for additional time after your fees have stopped.

As a subscriber to JFM Compliance, you enjoy the additional benefit at no charge to assist with your recruiting needs by including your company application link to our recruiting page.

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Easy to Use

JFM Compliance is intuitive and communicative and will keep you on track throughout all required processes. A built-in notification and custom reminder system is included as well as a law-enforcement portal should the need arise, Company handbooks with driver instructions are available, as well as Drug & Alcohol policies. When you sign on, your onboarding is easier; annual compliance supplies your records with MVRs, PSPs, and CDLISs, which may be ordered directly through the system with just a couple of clicks.

Joining JFM Compliance is easy . After you sign up, you will be up and running shortly. Our system is user-friendly and, more important, DOT compliant as you streamline your driver and equipment processes. We are friendly and knowledgeable, backed by a quick-response support team to help you with any questions you might have about the use of the system.

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  • Safety Ratings by the FMCSA are trending negatively because of the huge increase in off-site desk reviews.

    Most desk reviews, in contrast to prior years, have resulted in negative outcomes; a majority have resulted in “Conditional” ratings.


    The upgrade process to go from "Conditional" back to "Satisfactory" has resulted in a 90% denial. Instead, a carrier may receive, at best, “No rating.”


    You can't get there from here. The upgrade process is now outrageously difficult:


    • FMCSA “policy” states “Satisfactory ratings can only be issued upon a comprehensive investigation,” generally a “full on-site audit.”
    • Sometimes a single critical HOS violation is enough to get a Conditional rating.
    • The two common critical violations are “form and manner” and “false reports of duty status” – often improper use of “personal conveyance,” the most misunderstood duty status.

    Conditional Ratings in 2021 were the majority of all ratings issued to carriers.


    • Complaints to the Agency say a revision of its safety rating methodology is needed because critical HOS violations are overly reliant on e-log enforcement, a battle that carriers are bound to lose.
    • Efforts to reform CSA have been non-existent.
    • Who loses? Carriers lose shipper and broker clients.
    • The FMCSA uses the carrier’s rankings within the CSA program to target fleets for off-site safety audits.
    • The small carriers receive the largest share of targeted audits, with little time to submit a laundry list of demanded documents.
    • How to avoid the audit letter? Review, review, and review your CSA scores. Review crash accountability. Reward drivers with cash for clean roadside inspections.

  • Your key: electronic records

    With off-site audits now one of the FMCSA’s primary enforcement tools, carriers must be conversant with the method of uploading compliance documentation quickly.


    • Driver qualification files, drug and alcohol testing programs, Hours of Service records, and vehicle maintenance files are where the most acute and critical violations are found.
    • But be prepared to also upload proof of insurance, accident register, driver handbook with progressive discipline measures; also, oddly, I’ve seen requests for profit and loss statements, tax returns, personal and real property records.
    • Standing alone, your HOS records without supporting documents can bring a downgraded safety rating; then combined with other violations, carriers face an “unsatisfactory” rating, heavy Notice of Claim fines, or orders to cease operations.

  • Weaponizing insurance costs

    It doesn’t take much to make a small carrier cease business.


    • Insurance premium costs per mile increased by 47% in 10 years.
    • Crash frequency is not even the main culprit.
    • “Small verdicts” are now in the $400K range; with litigation pressuring insurers.
    • Litigious states produced payouts 50% larger than the national average.
    • Insurers have left the market or allocated capacity to less risky sectors.
    • Real world impact of insurance costs causes small fleets to cut corners on safety, decrease coverage levels to $1 million, leaving companies exposed to significant crashes.
    • Excess coverage availability for large fleets is declining due to high risk, social inflation.
    • Improvement in carrier safety performance YOY has no effect to lower premiums; we know insurers want 3 to 5 years of loss runs.

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