# Synergy Safety Group

> Executive advisors for transportation safety and DOT/FMCSA compliance. Synergy Safety Group helps motor carriers, contractors, tow operators, passenger carriers, and private fleets pass DOT audits, lower CSA scores, and build safety programs that prevent accidents.

Synergy Safety Group serves fleets of every size, including construction and trades operators who don't realize they are FMCSA-regulated. Services span DOT compliance management, mock DOT audits, hours-of-service/ELD management, driver qualification and Clearinghouse, drug and alcohol programs, camera/telematics coaching, accident investigation, and fractional safety leadership. Contact: +1-866-453-7226 · info@synergy-solutionsllc.com · 11990 Grant Street, Suite 550, Northglenn, CO 80233.

## Guides
- [How to Pass a DOT Audit: The Complete 2026 Checklist](https://synergysafetygroup.com/guides/how-to-pass-a-dot-audit/): A step-by-step DOT audit checklist for motor carriers: the six record areas auditors review, the violations that auto-fail you, and exactly…
- [FMCSA 2026 Changes: What Motor Carriers Must Do](https://synergysafetygroup.com/guides/fmcsa-2026-changes/): The FMCSA rule changes taking effect in 2026 and what each one means for your fleet: non-compliant ELD out-of-service enforcement, English…
- [New Entrant Safety Audit: What to Expect + Checklist](https://synergysafetygroup.com/guides/new-entrant-safety-audit/): Every new motor carrier faces a safety audit in its first 12 months. Here is what the audit covers, the 16 violations that automatically…
- [How to Improve Your CSA Score: A Carrier's Guide](https://synergysafetygroup.com/guides/how-to-improve-csa-score/): What your CSA score really measures, how the seven BASICs are calculated, and the concrete steps that lower your percentiles: fixing…
- [DQ File & Clearinghouse Requirements: The Full Checklist](https://synergysafetygroup.com/guides/dq-file-clearinghouse-requirements/): Exactly what belongs in a driver qualification file under 49 CFR 391.51, plus the Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse queries every carrier must…
- [Negligent Entrustment: The Risk Behind Every Business Vehicle](https://synergysafetygroup.com/guides/negligent-entrustment-cmv/): What negligent entrustment means for any business whose employees drive — company cars, vans, trucks, or their own vehicles for work: how…
- [Root Cause Analysis for Fleets: Ask What Allowed It, Not Why](https://synergysafetygroup.com/guides/root-cause-analysis-what-allowed-it/): Most fleet root cause analysis ends at driver error because the 5 Whys always terminates on a person. Here is the what-allowed-it method…
- [Does a Pickup and Trailer Require a CDL? Construction Fleet Exposure (2026)](https://synergysafetygroup.com/guides/pickup-trailer-cdl-exposure/): If your crew tows a skid steer behind an F-350, federal law may already call you a motor carrier. How the 26,001 lb GCWR rule works, what a…
- [All compliance guides](https://synergysafetygroup.com/guides/)

## Services
- [Safety Program Development for Fleets](https://synergysafetygroup.com/services/safety-program-development/): Build the policies, processes, and culture that stop incidents before they start — engineered to your operation, not a generic…
- [Fleet Risk & Safety Exposure Assessments](https://synergysafetygroup.com/services/risk-exposure-assessments/): Find the unsafe practices and blind spots that lead to accidents and claims — before they cost you.
- [Accident & Incident Investigation for Fleets](https://synergysafetygroup.com/services/accident-investigation/): Root-cause analysis and corrective action that keep the same event from happening twice.
- [Dash Camera & Telematics Management + Driver Coaching](https://synergysafetygroup.com/services/camera-telematics/): Event review, driver coaching, and technology that proves your case — managed daily by real coaches, not just an app.
- [CMV Driver Safety Training Programs](https://synergysafetygroup.com/services/driver-training/): 25+ modules across driver, safety, and leadership development — delivered through Driver Education Network.
- [Fractional Safety Director / Outsourced Safety Manager](https://synergysafetygroup.com/services/fractional-safety-director/): Executive safety leadership without the full-time headcount — a director who owns outcomes as part of your team.
- [DOT Compliance Management & FMCSA Compliance Services](https://synergysafetygroup.com/services/dot-compliance-management/): FMCSA programs, driver files, and audit support for regulated fleets — kept continuously ready, not scrambled together before an…
- [Mock DOT Audit — Pass Your FMCSA Audit](https://synergysafetygroup.com/services/mock-dot-audits/): A full audit-readiness review — we find the gaps before a regulator does.
- [Hours of Service (HOS) & ELD Management](https://synergysafetygroup.com/services/hos-eld-management/): Hours-of-service oversight, log auditing, and violation defense — the daily discipline that keeps logs clean and drivers legal.
- [CSA Score Management — Lower Your CSA Scores](https://synergysafetygroup.com/services/csa-score-management/): Identify, dispute, and drive down the scores carriers are judged on — the numbers brokers and insurers see first.
- [Driver Qualification Files & FMCSA Clearinghouse Management](https://synergysafetygroup.com/services/driver-qualification-clearinghouse/): DQ files, MVRs, and Clearinghouse kept continuously audit-ready — so a file review is never a fire drill.
- [DOT Drug & Alcohol Testing Program Management](https://synergysafetygroup.com/services/drug-alcohol-program/): DOT-compliant testing program and consortium management — run correctly under Part 382 and Part 40.

## Industries We Serve
- [DOT Compliance & Safety for Trucking & Motor Carriers](https://synergysafetygroup.com/industries/trucking-motor-carriers/)
- [DOT Compliance & Safety for Towing & Recovery Operators](https://synergysafetygroup.com/industries/towing-recovery/)
- [Do Construction & Trades Need DOT Compliance? FMCSA for Contractors](https://synergysafetygroup.com/industries/construction-trades/)
- [DOT Compliance & Safety for Final-Mile & Delivery Fleets](https://synergysafetygroup.com/industries/final-mile-delivery/)
- [DOT Compliance & Safety for Passenger & Motorcoach Carriers](https://synergysafetygroup.com/industries/passenger-motorcoach/)
- [FMCSA Compliance & Safety for Private Fleets](https://synergysafetygroup.com/industries/private-fleets/)

## Tools
- [Driver Safety Manual Builder](https://synergysafetygroup.com/tools/driver-safety-manual-builder/): Build a custom, FMCSA-ready driver safety manual online. A guided builder that generates your company driver handbook, drug & alcohol…

## Key Pages
- [Free DOT audit readiness self-check](https://synergysafetygroup.com/readiness.html): 2-minute compliance self-assessment
- [Regulatory updates & enforcement news](https://synergysafetygroup.com/news.html): weekly FMCSA / OSHA / PHMSA changes