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Turn down sleep apnea noise machine — quantum-leap logic and unnecessary rigmarole are not in interest of safety
NASTC President David Owen on the re-emergency of strict sleep apnea screening protocols: Follow the ambulance chaser’s logic: "If we all have apnea and untreated apnea causes fatigue, then we’re all fatigued, all of the time!" The truth is more complex.
July 23, 2020
Business
Collision avoidance systems, sleep apnea testing among NTSB’s Most Wanted safety improvements
Among recommendations that could impact the trucking industry are eliminating distracted driving, eliminating alcohol and drug impairment, reducing speeding-related crashes, increasing collision avoidance systems, reducing fatigue-related accidents, requiring sleep apnea screening and testing.
February 4, 2019
Business
NTSB touts benefits of driver-, road-facing dashcams
The NTSB highlighted how driver and road-facing dashcams can not only increase safety, but also help truckers involved in accidents prove they aren't at fault.
September 14, 2018
Business
NTSB: Steer tire blowout likely cause of deadly New Mexico truck-bus collision
Last week a tractor trial and Greyhound bus accident that left eight people dead appears to have been caused by a steer tire blowout on the truck. Details here.
September 4, 2018
Business
Deadly 2016 truck crash prompts NTSB to reiterate call for truck safety reforms
In the June 2016 crash, a seven-passenger SUV with a total of 11 occupants was hit from behind by a 2016 Volvo tractor-trailer on I-70 near Goodland, Kansas, killing six and injuring five. NTSB found fault with both the trucker and the SUV driver.
March 16, 2018
Business
Former trucker gets 55 years in prison after 2015 crash that killed six
According to a report by Knoxville, Tenn., news station WBIR, Brewer was found guilty on six counts of vehicular homicide by intoxication, four counts of reckless aggravated assault, DUI and speeding.
March 13, 2018
Business
NTSB: Truck-involved highway fatalities rose in 2016
In total, NTSB determined highway deaths increased across the U.S. by 1,976 year-over-year. There were 722 fatalities resulting from crashes involving medium- and heavy-duty trucks in 2016 compared to 665 in 2015.
November 28, 2017
Business
I’ll take ‘Education and Training’ for the safety, Alex
“Any coherent business owner will tell you education and training are your most important safety features, in any setting, commercial or otherwise. … How is this being left out of the safety discussion?”
November 27, 2017
Business
Sleep apnea partly to blame in 2016 truck-bus crash that killed 13, NTSB concludes
The Board determined the trucker had untreated obstructive sleep apnea, and the bus driver had untreated diabetes and was fatigued, likely due to acute sleep loss, at the time of the crash.
November 1, 2017
Business
NTSB blames fatal car-truck crash on tired motorist
NTSB’s report states that a 2013 Hyundai Elantra, occupied by an 18-year-old driver and three passengers ranging in age from 17 to 19, lost control of the vehicle, crossed the median on U.S. Highway 77 and collided with a 2009 Freightliner.
February 3, 2017
Business
SmartDrive’s ‘Extended Recording’ feature enhanced; other upgrades, video mandate discussed
In a press briefing with reporters, coming just two weeks after NTSB’s first call for a mandate for video recorder use, SmartDrive reps noted any mandate would be long in coming but that a belief in the power of video in highway safety “is certainly our position.”
November 30, 2016
Business
Mandates for video recorders, collision avoidance systems among NTSB’s ‘Most Wanted’ in 2017-2018
Items on the list NTSB’s 2017-2018 most wanted list that could have the biggest impact on drivers include increased implementation of collision avoidance technologies, expanding use of event recorders, and ending alcohol and drug impairment.
November 15, 2016
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