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Overdrive Extra
Learning to see: Your recognition could solve a crime, save a life
Truck drivers' vigilance and recognition of a myriad situations along the highways could solve a crime and save a life. Take these two men as examples.
November 23, 2020
Channel 19
Preventable, or not: How to DataQ for FMCSA’s crash review program
Learn more about things to consider during the DataQ process of submitting a review through the FMCSA's crash preventability determination program here.
May 20, 2020
Channel 19
NASTC safety program offers one road to fighting off the ambulance chasers if the worst happens
The program can be a backstop to any size carrier’s efforts to effectively demonstrate a commitment to safety should the lawyers come searching for ways to cherry-pick further adversity after an accident — and in future may help NASTC square the circle as it relates to insurance premiums with the power of the group utilizing the program.
November 19, 2019
Overdrive Radio
After the accident: Coping, personal perspective, first-responder heroics and practical guidance
And a story of reunification of Harry Pierce’s ridealong pet, Blue, and his wife in Wyoming, after Pierce’s fatal head-on crash with a motorist making a reckless pass in Kansas. Listen: First responders detail accident recommendations and professional truckers discuss how to cope with tragedy.
September 16, 2019
Channel 19
Do we need a rulemaking on crash ‘preventability’ as a standard for removal from carrier scores?
Yes, according to the Motor Carrier Regulatory Reform coalition. Too many around the industry conflate “preventability” with fault, creating blowback potential particularly for truckers with accidents on their record for which they have no legal liability yet that get deemed “preventable” and labeled as such.
September 5, 2019
Voices
Trucking Solutions Group’s accident-awareness outreach with open call September 4
Organizers hope the September 4 call, during which three speakers, including professional truckers, will detail some of their own on-highway experiences, will provide insight on “how to react at an accident if you are involved or if you come upon one.”
September 3, 2019
Channel 19
Crash data before and after the Ontario province’s speed limiter mandate
Detail on a 2017-completed Ontario Ministry of Transport analysis of some crash metrics pre- and post- its 2009 speed limiter mandate. Bottom line: some food for thought as you consider whether to take concerns to your reps with the recent U.S. Senate bill that would mandate a 65-mph speed setting.
July 2, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Runaway recounted down Sandstone Mountain, and: Revisiting a quite accurate spot rate prediction pre-ELDs
Podcast: Lee Epling urges caution pointing the finger at this or that cause, or piling on the driver, before all the facts are known in the Colo. crash case, sharing his own brake-failure story on Sandstone Mountain in W.Va./Va. on I-64; Also: Monte Wiederhold’s quite accurate 2017 rates prediction relative to ELDs.
May 13, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Plenty blame to go around in Colo. tragedy, when the damage is done
Trucker Clifford Petersen on the Colo. disaster: “Let’s build a training program within our industry that the feds will model, because the standards are high, and expectations are even higher. The lives we save may be those of our own families. Those lives may be our own.”
May 6, 2019
Overdrive Radio
Tales of three runaway trucks: Crises endured and averted, lessons learned
The advice was good then and it's good now -- see a massive pileup, a multi-fatality runaway, ask yourself, "Could it have been you?" Owner-operator Gordon Alkire's '70s runaway tale, among others, shows it could. When you least expect it.
May 3, 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
Business
Trucker charged in Illinois trooper death
On March 28, at approximately 12:20 p.m., Illinois trooper Brooke Jones-Story was conducting a commercial vehicle inspection on the side of U.S. Highway 20 and was standing outside her squad car when she was allegedly struck and killed by Dittmar’s truck.
April 15, 2019
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