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Voices

POLL: Which issue would you describe as the biggest in trucking today?

Which of these major issues of discussion in trucking gets your vote for the most pressing today?

October 30, 2018

Business

Large truck traffic fatalities increased in 2017, bucking overall trend

Despite a decline in traffic related deaths, the National Highway Traffic Administration reports a 9% increase in fatalities involving large trucks in 2017.

October 3, 2018

Channel 19

Put down the phone

Rudy Yakym was stopped at a red light on his way back home after delivering a load of travel trailers, when a Volvo ran into his trailer. Hear his story today.

September 6, 2018

Business

‘Top-tier’ most effective states ranked in ATRI crash/inspections analysis

The state of Indiana leads the way in the American Transportation Research Institute’s ranking of state enforcement departments on the effectiveness of their truck-enforcement units, based principally on an assumed relationship between crashes and traffic-enforcement activities.

August 6, 2018

Business

Here are the citations ATRI says most closely correlate with crash risk

ATRI says it analyzed data from over 435,000 drivers over a two-year period to determine factors that can raise crash risk by 50 percent.

July 31, 2018

Channel 19

When a simple seatbelt could save you

Do you wear your seatbelt? Some people do, but some people don't. Read reports regarding seatbelt usage and the uptick in seatbelt violations over the years.

July 9, 2018

Overdrive Extra

Will it take a disaster to truly fix driver training?

Implementation of the FMCSA bill is ongoing, with full compliance required in February 2020. Will this new ruling help fix truck driving training? Details here.

May 8, 2018

Business

CVSA’s new working committee on crash data and investigations aims to establishment fairness, uniform practice

A motorist’s crash that didn’t touch a truck but ended up on a carrier’s record as a fatality because the motorist ended up deceased under the trailer highlights the pursuit of fairness in crash investigation with consistent reporting protocols that is among goals of CVSA’s new working crash committee.

April 27, 2018

Business

Report: Detention sucks over $1 billion from truckers’ wages annually, boosts crash risk

Drivers see an average annual pay loss of between $1,281 and $1,534, the report concludes, as well as potentially contributing to an extra 6,500 truck crashes each year. The DOT’s Office of Inspector General has called on FMCSA to bolster its data collection efforts around detention and its impacts.

February 7, 2018

Business

Lawmakers intro bill to beef up rear impact guards, mandate side guards on trailers

A bipartisan and bicameral group of U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday announced intentions to introduce a bill in Congress to require tractor-trailers to be equipped with so-called side underride guards, intended to protect car occupants in crashes in which the car slides under the trailer.

December 13, 2017

Business

Stop draggin’ this theoretical ELD report around

“Theories are great. I have some you’d probably be concerned about, therefore I don’t share them. And I certainly don’t present them as empirical evidence.”

October 4, 2017

Overdrive Extra

A shot in the arm for fixing CSA

The added weight of an objective party is welcome, especially knowing it gives Congress a clear vision of CSA problems. FMCSA has made relatively superficial changes – slowly – to CSA. It’s a shame it’s taken so many voices to repeat the call that change needs to be faster and more substantive.

August 1, 2017