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Posted in Heavy Vehicle Safety, Vehicle Accidents on Jan 19th, 2008
Overweight and overloaded trucks pose a very serious danger on our nation’s roadways. When a truck has more weight than it can safely carry, stopping is much more difficult, and the truck is much more likely to get out of control when swerving to avoid a collision or an animal in the road.
Overloaded trucks can [...]
Posted in Defensive Driving Basics, Heavy Vehicle Safety on Jan 17th, 2008
As the interstates and highways continue to become more populated, we can expect a rise in motor vehicle accidents. Even though trucking companies have improved their safety training, new statistics show an alarming rate of truck crashes. For years, news items have focused on driver fatigue as playing a major role in these incidents.
Posted in Defensive Driving Basics, Heavy Vehicle Safety on Dec 12th, 2007
Accidents involving trucks seldom occur but when they happen, they are often with tragic and disastrous results. Although incidents of large truck crashes have declined in recent years, accidents involving trucks still claim 5,000 fatalities each year.
Some of the common causes of truck accidents that may be attributed to truck drivers are the following:
Posted in Defensive Driving Techniques, Heavy Vehicle Safety on Nov 21st, 2007
I would like to share with you some of the daily safety problems that the professional truck driver faces.
In my opinion, cars maneuvered by poor drivers (J. Q. Public) must have a magnet installed in their front bumper that attracts them to trucks. This magnet pulls them within thirty feet of the rear of semi-trailers.The [...]
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