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Distracted driving continues to impact truck safety despite millions spent on information and education and increased fines for both drivers and fleet owners for use of a hand-held phone while a vehicle is moving. If you are a fleet owner, what requirements have you placed on your drivers as well as other company employees operating their vehicles in their line of work?
In addition to driving up your safety score, involvement in certain key traffic violations has been shown to be a precursor of traffic crashes. After reviewing massive amounts of truck traffic citation and violation data and subsequent crashes involving the drivers cited in the data review, an American TransportationResearch Institute (ATRI) study showed that drivers cited for these specific traffic behaviors are at highest risk of a future crash
September 12-19 is National Truck Driver Appreciation Week.
FMCSA has provided regulatory relief for maximum driving time for commercial vehicles involved directly in COVID-19 relief efforts, including but not limited to the transportation of vaccines, medical supplies and equipment, along with livestock and livestock feed, and food, paper products and other groceries for emergency restocking.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Medical Review Board (MRB), a five-member panel of physicians that provides expert advice to the agency, has recommended that the current field-of-vision requirement for drivers with vision loss in one eye be changed from 70 degrees to 120 degrees.
Hair testing is the only drug testing method available that provides up to a 90-day history of repetitive drug use. When compared with urine testing, hair testing tends to provide a greater number of positives due to its longer detection window. Research shows that the positive rate for hair testing is over 5% compared to a urine positive rate in the 2% range.
Maintaining the proper following distance gives you time to make good, well-planned decisions and affords other drivers the opportunity to do the same. What is your regular following distance? Adding even one more second can be a game changer.
Only a truck driver can understand how the “truck parking” issue can be the single biggest concern drivers face today.
Video technology is being used all over the country to help good drivers get even better and reduce the chances of being in a crash.