William T. Baareman

  • Bill Baareman has over 18 years of experience in the trucking industry with an extensive knowledge of regulatory compliance, driver training, and commercial motor vehicle equipment. Bill has gained his expertise as a “trucking safety expert” from his knowledge and experience in the “driver’s standard of care” and his career as a State of Michigan Certified Commercial Driver’s License Instructor. Bill also possesses a vast knowledge and expertise of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration regulations, along with the state and local regulations, governing the commercial motor vehicle industry.

    Bill has earned his designation as an OSHA safety expert through the extensive training he has completed, throughout the years, on federal and state OSHA regulations, his experience in managing and overseeing OSHA compliance as an Operations Manager and has successfully completed an entire overhaul of a company’s warehouse and fleet operations to become, and remain, in compliance with all federal and state OSHA regulations. Bill is knowledgeable and experienced in the practices of properly loading and unloading, as well as forklift safety.

  • Mr. Baareman has a distinct capability of combining his extensive background in fleet management, fleet operations, OSHA training, experience as a CDL instructor and his technical training, which allows him to analyze and evaluate various situations and incidents for which his knowledge and expertise is required. Mr. Baareman’s areas of expertise include, but are not limited to, the following:

    • CDL Driver Hiring and Retention Standards

    • CDL Driver Training

    • CDL Driver Qualification Files

    • Electronic Logging Devices- ELDs (use/manipulation of)

    • Hours of Service/Logbooks (DOT compliance/identifying violations)

    • DOT Drug/Alcohol Testing Standards and Procedures

    • Equipment Inspections and Maintenance

    • Federal DOT and OSHA Audits/Compliance Reviews

    • FMCSA and OSHA Regulation Compliance

    • Forklift Operation, Maintenance, Loading and Unloading

    • Trucking Industry Practices, Procedures and Safety

    • Cargo and Load Securement

  • Greg’s education includes crash reconstruction curriculum from Michigan State University‘s HTSP College of Engineering and North Florida University’s Institute of Police Technology and Management (IPTM) in the following areas:

    • Advanced at scene investigations

    • Identification and documentation of roadway evidence

    • Crash Scene photography

    • Identification and documentation of vehicle exterior evidence

    • Identification and documentation of vehicle interior evidence

    • Vehicle lamp analysis

    • Vehicle tire analysis

    • Reconstruction Formulae

    • Advanced Motorcycle Crash Investigations

    • Pedestrian Crash Investigations

    • Advanced Crash Reconstruction: Vector Sum Analysis, Conservation of Momentum, Conservation of Energy, Law of Sines and Cosines, mass ratio considerations

    • Occupant Kinematic Applications in Crash Reconstruction

    • Human Factors in Crash Reconstruction

    • Crush Damage Measurements

    • Energy Applications in Crash Reconstruction

    • Event Data Recorder (EDR) Technician

    • Advanced Event Data Recorder (EDR) Analyst

    • Commercial Vehicle Crash Investigations

    • Level One Commercial Vehicle Inspections

    • School Bus Crash Reconstruction

    • Total Station Crash Scene Mapping

    • Time and Distance analysis

    • Vericom 2000 and 4000 Operator

    • ARAS 360 & Visual Statements CAD