When sharing the road with large commercial trucks, drivers need to remember to give truck drivers plenty of room to complete right turns.
Here is some advice from Driver Solutions and American Trucking Associations on how to share the road with big trucks.
A growing number of fleets contend that Compliance, Safety & Accountability (CSA) program is in need of substantial improvement. Currently, a fleet’s score in the CSA safety monitoring system is based on all fleet-involved crashes, including those that the company’s driver did not cause and could not reasonably have prevented. This scoring criteria is contrary to accepted industry standards and, in the long run, will undermine the validity of the CSA program in the eyes of covered fleets.
The paper-based logbook system used to track hours of service (HOS) by commercial truck fleets is prone to driver manipulation and falsification. Even the FMCSA has stated that falsification of logbooks is widespread. By all accounts, the current system of manually recorded logbooks is a joke. Yet, despite this “elephant in the room,” the federal government remains unable to mandate onboard devices to improve HOS enforcement. Why can it work in Europe, but not here?
Further, the study concluded that complaints from critics of this technology were not substantiated by the data.
The American Trucking Associations has filed a petition for review of the FMCSA's new hours-of-service rule for commerical truck drivers.
Trucking companies won't have to file financial reports.
Association says it is safer for all vehicles to travel the same speed.
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