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Todd Daum

Commercial driver, driver safety, or driver training

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Todd Daum
SEAT 09

Commercial driver, driver safety, or driver training

Term: Dates pending confirmation

Todd Daum

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Driver · Deer Park City Schools

I'm the author of From Horses to Diesel Trucks: A History of Modern Trucking (2026), and a safety and compliance professional with a CDL-A (HAZMAT and Tanker) and a career that started on the fire ground. I'm a retired Engineer with the Deer Park-Silverton Joint Fire District and also served with the Mason Volunteer Fire Department, responding to commercial, industrial, and residential emergencies. Since then I've driven trucks, worked residential and commercial HVAC, and served as a Boy Scout Lead Advisor and instructor. I'm an Eagle Scout. I run Fleet Safety Intelligence Consulting and publish the Freight Culture Standard, a library of more than 180 policy briefs across 15 series, all built on primary sources. Every brief comes back to one question: did the people responsible verify who they were dealing with, and did they document what they did when something looked wrong? The Dalilah Standard asks that question of carriers, brokers, shippers, and others, and it asks for evidence instead of a badge. I want to help make that kind of accountability visible.

ABOUT THIS COUNCIL SEAT

Seat 09 requirements and responsibilities

Commercial driver, driver safety, or driver training

Qualifications for this seat

A commercial driver, driver-safety professional or professional driver-training representative.

Relevant work and experience

  • Commercial driving, driver supervision, safety instruction or professional driver training.
  • Driver qualification, readiness, communication and real-world operating conditions.
  • How training and documentation translate into decisions behind the wheel.

What this seat contributes

  • Review driver-related standards for practical use and understandable expectations.
  • Identify training and qualification gaps that deserve attention.
  • Explain how proposed requirements affect drivers during actual operations.
  • Recommend useful safety education and review assigned driver-related program matters.

Responsibilities throughout Council service

  • Prepare for meetings, review assigned standards and supporting evidence, and record informed votes on Council appointments and other reserved matters.
  • Maintain the individual Council pledge, apply published requirements fairly and place the integrity of the Standard above personal or commercial interests.
  • Protect confidential information, provide annual conflict disclosures, disclose changes promptly and recuse when required.
  • Follow the Charter’s ethics and competition safeguards. Committee leadership and additional assignments require separate discussion and authorization where applicable.

Service commitment

Unpaid service, with an initial estimate of 2–4 hours per month on average. Meetings are expected at least quarterly, ordinarily 60–90 minutes. Workload varies; substantial extra assignments are discussed first.

Seat terms are normally three years; founding staggered terms and replacement appointments may be shorter. This member’s recorded term dates appear above. Council service is an individual program advisory and review appointment, not a corporate director or officer appointment.

Requirements before appointment

Applicants provide a résumé and signed individual pledge, complete qualification, background and conflict review, and undergo separate secure identity verification, normally including government ID and facial recognition through FreightValidate/AU10TIX, or a documented lawful equivalent where applicable. Appointment also requires pledge approval and a recorded Council approval vote. Prior Pledge Signatory or Recognized Participant approval is not required to apply.

This section explains the requirements of the seat. It does not publish the member’s private verification documents, disclosures or review records. Seat-specific contributions are examples within the shared Charter duties.

Full Council service termsGovernance Charter

Council service is an individual appointment. It does not grant recognition or endorsement to a member’s employer.

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