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Crashes and interventions: CSA’s crash flaw
Independent owner-operators have the lowest rate of truck-involved crashes but are far more likely to be put out of service than drivers for carriers with 500 or more trucks, which have a higher crash rate.
May 6, 2013
Business
Crashes and interventions: The fault handicap
FMCSA may be a long way from accounting for crash fault in the CSA Safety Measurement System. In the meantime, questions about the system’s effectiveness loom large with analysis of crash rates.
May 1, 2013
Business
Delving into CSA data shows enforcement irregularities
Overdrive is excited to launch the expanded CSA’s Data Trail website, which is dedicated to empowering trucking professionals with data and analysis of how CSA affects their businesses.
May 1, 2013
Voices
Reasons for the rise in truck-occupant crash deaths
Readers weigh in on root causes after NHTSA’s examination of crash statistics showed a sharp rise in truck occupant crash fatalities (20 percent) between 2010 and 2011.
December 18, 2012
Channel 19
Hours debacle covered at news site Politico
**(Overdrive editor Max Heine is posting updates from the Truckload Carriers Association annual meeting via the OD Twitter feed and Facebook page today. Expected to be included among the news are company driver and owner-operator of the year awards. Stay tuned.)** Click through the thumbnail of the graph here for Politico writer Adam Snider’s brief […]
March 6, 2012
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11 die in I-65 collision
A March 26 accident on Interstate 65 in Kentucky left 11 dead after a tractor-trailer crossed the median, then collided with a passenger van before it crashed into a rock wall and caught fire. Investigators do not yet know why the truck crossed the median, said Trooper Charles Swiney of the Kentucky State Police. Two […]
March 31, 2010
Overdrive Extra
Putting safety news in context
The good report last week on 2008’s highway fatality numbers, including truck-related deaths, was a bit incomplete because of the highly unusual drop in vehicle miles traveled (VMT, in government-speak). Of course, that decline was due to months of outrageous fuel prices during late 2008. The press release from the American Trucking Associations conveniently failed […]
July 8, 2009
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