Health & Safety
Increase in truck crash fatalities not indicative of safety trend: ATA
ARLINGTON, Va. -- The US Department of Transportation's recently released overview of motor vehicle crashes in 2010 found an 8.7% increase in fatal crashes involving large trucks last year compared with 2009. However, American Trucking...
Spotlight on HoS changes preventing progress in other safety areas: ATA
ARLINGTON, Va. -- The American Trucking Associations says the focus on "unnecessary" changes to current Hours-of-Service by advocacy groups and the current leadership at the Department of Transportation has prevented progress on a number of...
OOIDA says proposed Hours-of-Service regulations unjustified, burdensome
GRAIN VALLEY, Mo. -- The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) has told Congress that proposed changes to Hours-of-Service regulations are not only unnecessary but also unjustified and burdensome to small-business truckers.
Behaviour-based safety management is ‘old school’: Schneider exec
GRAPEVINE, Texas - Fleet safety programs that focus on driver behaviour are ineffective, as it's an individual's beliefs that drive their behaviour and in some cases those beliefs must be reshaped before any meaningful outcome is achieved.That...
ONLINE SPECIAL: Can you afford not to address sleep apnea?
TORONTO, Ont. -- Consider the life of a sleep apnea-stricken professional truck driver: Four hours of driving followed by a two-hour nap, then another four hours of driving and another nap. Worse, home time that is literally slept away with no...