Tag: crashes: Page 6

Business

Comets, celebrity butts and crashes

Do they have anything whatsoever to do with each other? Maybe not, but Wendy weighs in with an experiment intended to get information abut trucking to the general public.

November 17, 2014

Channel 19

Move Over Laws in spotlight through November

The folks at Allstate insurance have teamed up with the International Towing and Recovery Hall of Fame and Museum in Chattanooga, Tenn., on a “Provider Safety Advocacy” campaign to raise awareness of Move Over laws.

November 8, 2014

Business

Don’t mess with Texas: Focusing on the truck and not the trucker to roll back crashes

Only two of the states with the biggest truck-involved fatality-crash problems show a percentage of maintenance violations above the 2013 national average of 72.6 percent – Virginia and Texas.

November 6, 2014

Overdrive Radio

MCSAC to get new chairman — and a little CSA deja vu

Ever wonder what FMCSA’s current administrator sounds like? Hear him reveal the incoming MCSAC advisory committee chair here. Also: No wonder trucking went to Congress over CSA, and more from D.C….

October 28, 2014

Channel 19

Where and when deer strikes are most likely

If there is a season for deer strikes out on the highway, State Farm reminds us in a recent analysis of customer data, we’re in it — with the worst of it yet to come. What were the circumstances the last time you hit (or closely missed) a deer on the road?

October 20, 2014

Business

Ctrl + Alt + Del won’t erase stupidity

A word on safety after another truck-school bus accident: “Maybe all the regulations have muddled the original idea, but the basic concept is pretty dang simple: ‘eyes on the road, mind on the load.'”

October 3, 2014

Channel 19

Big data blowback: Trucking goes to Congress over CSA

Behind the CSA bill — H.R. 5532 would require FMCSA to revamp the CSA program, pulling scores and non-crash-associated data from public view in the meantime. Prognosis for the bill in the short term: Not good with a Democrat Party-controlled Senate, one watcher notes.

September 23, 2014

Channel 19

Fallen driver Richard Sullivan’s ridealong companion is coming home

Karen Talbot of Animal Aid USA requests drivers flash their lights when they see the N.J.-based nonprofit’s van/trailer combo on the road Aug 20-21, and seeks drivers to participate in a Chatsworth, Ga., homecoming convoy.

August 12, 2014

Voices

Trucking far from ‘under-regulated’: Reactions to CNBC’s ‘Collision course’ series

The CNBC series itself wondered why there is not a “national outcry” for more trucking regulations. As reader Dianne Vranesic put it quite simply, “‘Under-regulated’? Are you kidding?”

August 1, 2014

Business

New study highlights state truck enforcement disparities

The new report, from ATRI, stresses that the different priorities and violation issuance rates across states dramatically undermine the uniformity of CSA.

July 31, 2014

Voices

Sharing the road: Some common sense on regulations to reduce crashes

From owner-operator Pete Zimmer: “Put the safety where needed. Educate auto drivers. Increase fines to make an impact. Put regulations where the biggest problems lie. Make fines equal for all. We are all on the same highways.”

July 30, 2014

Business

It finally happened

Wendy on the recent accident in North Carolina, where she and George were rear-ended: “I keep telling him only one wreck in driving (all kinds of vehicles) for 29 years is a fine run.”

June 11, 2014