EOBRs: An Important Tool For Preventing Truck Accidents
EOBRs—electronic onboard recorders—provide for greater safety through accountability by recording data on driver performance, health and behaviors that may help prevent truck accidents. EOBRs may also...
View ArticleFMCSA Conducts Benefit-Cost Analysis of Onboard Safety Systems Used to...
As part of its goal to reduce the number and severity of large truck crashes, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) recently conducted a of three commercial motor vehicle onboard...
View ArticleElectronic Stability Systems as Truck Accident Prevention Tools
In an earlier post to this blog (January 15, 2009) I discussed the VORAD (Vehicle On-Board RADar) collision avoidance system and its ability to lower the number of rear-end and lane change collisions...
View ArticleNHTSA Extends Truck Safety Regulation
In a move that at first glance may appear to be overly cautious, but that in the long run will contribute to a reduction in the number of truck accidents, the National Highway Traffic Safety...
View ArticleGPS Helps Track Drivers’ Record of Duty Status and Prevent Truck Accidents
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration currently exercises its full authority under 49 USC 504(c) to include the examination of GPS or other advanced technology records in the normal course of...
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Tax Credits May Boost Trucking Safety Technology
Better trucking safety technology through tax credits. That’s the thinking behind Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)’s newly introduced trucking legislation, which rewards fleets with five-year tax credits...
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UPDATE: New Trucking Bill Would Reward Purchasers of VORAD Systems
July 12, 2011 — A new piece of trucking legislation moving through both houses would drive higher spending on collision warning systems such as Bendix’s VORAD. Two and a half years ago, when we wrote...
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Werner Adds Meritor Tire Inflation System (MTIS) Across Fleet
Advances in trucking technology continue to make the roads safer and the jobs easier. Werner Enterprises is adding the Meritor Tire Inflation System (MTIS) to all of its nearly 24,000 trailers. So far,...
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Con-way Truckload to Utilize Maptuit NaviGo Technology
Con-way Inc., one of the largest for-hire trucking carriers in North America, announced recently that it will install Maptuit NaviGo technology on all of its trucks and tractors equipped with Qualcomm...
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High-Tech Tools Shed Light on Truck Accident Details
I am always a proponent of having access to as much information as possible, particularly as that information concerns the cause of a truck accident. In recent years, we’ve seen the advent of high-tech...
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