This Handbook project was initiated by IANA’s Intermodal Safety Committee to develop a common set of safety recommendations, drawn from Occupational Safety and Health Administration guidelines, to assist intermodal facility operators for improving safety.

The Driver Experience at Intermodal Facilities Task Force’s charter was to understand the positives aspects and the challenges of the driver’s experience at intermodal terminals. Having more knowledge from a driver’s perspective on the variables impacting their experience, in conjunction with terminal transactional data, can help to understand what is happening on the ground and increase driver efficiency and capacity, cargo velocity, and terminal throughput and safety.

The Task Force’s final presentation, including conclusions and recommendations, is available for review.

This webpage acts as a quick reference guide, containing roadside service documentation, links to various roadside service websites, and specific business rules pertaining to IEPs within the industry. With this central source, IANA hopes to further assist the Motor Carrier community in reducing the impact on both vehicles and drivers when equipment incidents occur.

The Wheel End Task Force has produced a Driver Awareness card to help identify wheel end roll-offs and wheel end separations.

The Driver’s Inspection Guide is available for your download. The Guide was designed in two formats. An 8½ x 11 sheet and a trifold. This is not an all-inclusive document, but does focus on the most common and critical indicators for driver awareness. Inspection items were placed in order from the outside of the wheel working inward. It was designed with bullet points to minimize the amount of reading.

The Standard Industry Safety Rules and Procedures at Intermodal Facilities identifies initiatives, activities or processes that can influence and reduce the frequency of drayage mishaps on terminals, yards and depots.

The Intermodal Terminal Drayman Safety Handbook is designed for the distribution to drayman to improve safety on Intermodal Terminals.

The Safety Pocket Card identifies six Recommended Practices to reduce collisions on intermodal terminals. This card is designed to be distributed to the intermodal drayage community.

The Tire Marking & Photo Requirements Supplement to Exhibit C of the UIIA now provides for a streamlined method for the evaluation of tire condition to validate the cause of the failure and determine the responsible party. The new photographic evidence guidelines will eliminate the need for the return the physical tire carcass. Photos will be produced by the road service provider and provided to both the UIIA equipment provider and motor carrier. These two documents, in different formats, outline the criteria to mark and photograph tire defects. Both are available for download to be shared with intermodal drivers, equipment providers and road service providers.

This video is a recording of the walk-around inspection performed by the drivers that are picking up intermodal equipment. The process is based upon the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations and illustrates the procedural steps to be followed by a driver prior to taking an intermodal chassis/container on the road.

This video illustrates the procedural steps followed by law enforcement when conducting a Level 1 roadside inspection performed in accordance with the North American Standard Inspection procedures developed by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance.