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Tag: distraction
Business
App for that: Smartphone-distraction-avoidance assist
Need a distraction-avoidance assistant? The new Nextraq MobileBlock device and app locks smartphone and tablet apps, except for navigation and emergency calling, while youâre driving.
August 7, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Stay focused: Principal problem-solving challenge for owner-ops
Gary Buchs on problem-solving in a tough market: âOne of my primary points when mentoring a new owner-op or driver: solve the little problems first. Part and parcel of that directive is understanding just what you are able to control. Donât let others distract you from your priorities.â
July 22, 2019
Channel 19
A case for manual shifting, for less (not more) automation, for engagement on the long road
The incremental additions of automated features at highway speeds is ultimately an experiment with how much distraction the human brain can resist before it falls asleep at the wheel. Vehicle makers new and old, and end users, would do well to recognize and take very seriously the implications.
April 18, 2019
Channel 19
Credit where itâs deserved: Motorist says sheâs alive today on account of a few good pros
Herewith one motorist who knows what it means to share the road. Two professional driversâ training and composure âmay be the reason I am alive,â wrote a reader of the Portland (Me.) Press-Herald, lauding the swift thinking and reaction of the pros.
March 12, 2019
Channel 19
A corrective to âbubble-wrappedâ driving syndrome
A tip from Mustangâs Trucking â donât try to read a book while going down the road â applicable whether your truck is âbubble-wrappedâ with auto-braking and lane-departure-warning tech or not âŚ
February 2, 2018
Business
Ode to those who make us laugh
âHereâs to the people who make us laugh when weâd rather cry, especially my sweet husband. Make someone laugh today â you never know who feels like the catâs been sucking on their hair, and you may just keep a trucker from crying.â
February 22, 2017
Channel 19
Navigating âamateur dayâ with the four-wheelers
âAmateur Night,â by driver Bill Patterson: âI dread Saturday nights. You never know what will happen.â Profiling the texter, the brake-footer, the rubbernecker, the NASCAR wannabe and âŚ
August 18, 2015
Overdrive Extra
Are driving skills about to be devalued?
Our industry has spent years on the hard sell that safe driving is truly a skilled profession. Itâs sad to imagine the long-haul more akin to Homer Simpson, watching gauges at the power plant.
June 4, 2015
Business
Ctrl + Alt + Del wonât erase stupidity
A word on safety after another truck-school bus accident: âMaybe all the regulations have muddled the original idea, but the basic concept is pretty dang simple: âeyes on the road, mind on the load.'â
October 3, 2014
Channel 19
Report: Air horns for four-wheeler safety?
More and more, drivers are taking the issue of four-wheeler distraction (chiefly by cellphones) into their own handsâŚ.
September 11, 2014
Voices
Should time away from home be systematically limited?
Owner-operator Cary Goodman asks this question in a letter to the editor.
October 24, 2013
Voices
Reasons for the rise in truck-occupant crash deaths
Readers weigh in on root causes after NHTSAâs examination of crash statistics showed a sharp rise in truck occupant crash fatalities (20 percent) between 2010 and 2011.
December 18, 2012
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