Marcus Webb, CDS

Background

Marcus Webb has worked in commercial trucking safety since 2007, when he took a safety coordinator position at a regional LTL operation in central Ohio. He spent three years there before moving to a dry van carrier based in Indianapolis — a mid-size outfit running around 85 trucks through the Midwest and into the Southeast — where he eventually became Regional Safety Director.

That job meant building things from scratch more than once. When he joined, the company's incident documentation system was a mix of handwritten forms and email threads that nobody could find two weeks after the fact. He rebuilt the process over the following years, which included overhauling their driver coaching program, managing the carrier's relationship with their primary insurer through a pair of significant claims, and sitting in on enough post-accident reviews to understand which records were actually useful versus which just looked organized at the time.

He completed the North American Transportation Management Institute's Certified Director of Safety (CDS) program in 2020. He describes it as mostly confirming things he'd already figured out in the field.

Consulting work

Marcus left the carrier in 2021 and has since worked independently with small fleets — mostly operations in the 10 to 50 truck range — on documentation systems, post-accident review processes, and safety policy templates. The small fleet focus wasn't accidental. That's where most trucking companies operate, and it's where the gap between having a process and not having one shows up most clearly after something goes wrong.

Most of the fleets he's worked with had some form of accident reporting in place. The consistent problem wasn't the absence of a process — it was that the process scattered evidence across people, devices, and email inboxes in a way that made it hard to assemble a complete file when it mattered. A lot of his consulting work has been about getting carriers to treat documentation as a real-time task rather than a reconstruction project.

Role at CrashProof Truck

Marcus joined CrashProof Truck as a contributing editor in late 2024. His review work focuses on field accuracy — whether a checklist step reflects what drivers and safety managers actually do in practice, whether boundary language on regulated topics is appropriately cautious without being so vague it's useless, and whether the templates would function in a working fleet environment rather than just looking complete on a page.

He doesn't provide legal or insurance advice through this site, and his review work doesn't constitute a legal or compliance opinion on any specific situation. Pages retain their standard disclaimers regardless of review status. Readers with compliance questions should work directly with their safety consultant, insurer, or qualified legal counsel.

Credentials

• Certified Director of Safety (CDS) — North American Transportation Management Institute (NATMI), 2020
• 18 years commercial trucking safety experience
• Former Regional Safety Director, dry van carrier (Midwest/Southeast operations)

Content he has reviewed

Marcus reviews content in the following areas on this site: accident documentation checklists, post-accident evidence preservation guidance, fleet safety policy templates, driver coaching documentation, dash cam evidence handling, and safety technology explainers. He also reviews boundary language on regulated topics including post-accident testing requirements, hours-of-service record preservation, and ADAS documentation in incident files.

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