Results are in from the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) unannounced Brake Safety Day inspections in May, and out of nearly 10,000 vehicles inspected, ultimately, more than one out of five were taken off the road.
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Category: Safety
CVSA’s May Brake Safety Day: One in five, one in eight failed
Results are in from the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s (CVSA) unannounced Brake Safety Day inspections in May, and out of nearly 10,000 vehicles inspected, ultimately, more than one out of five were taken off the road.
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Toward Zero Accidents: Volvo Active Driver Assist now standard
New VNL, VNR models to come with collision mitigation system
DUBLIN, VA. With a focus on reducing costly accidents, Volvo Trucks has made Volvo Active Driver Assist, which…
Toward Zero Accidents: Volvo Active Driver Assist now standard
New VNL, VNR models to come with collision mitigation system
ROANOKE, VA. With a focus on reducing costly accidents, Volvo Trucks has made Volvo Active Driver Assist, whic…
Toward Zero Accidents: Volvo Active Driver Assist now standard
New VNL, VNR models to come with collision mitigation system
ROANOKE, VA. With a focus on reducing costly accidents, Volvo Trucks has made Volvo Active Driver Assist, whic…
A farmer’s life deferred
Traffic guy at work opens path to distinguished career in trucking
Early on in life, Gary Strausbaugh, a top expert private fleet manager and NPTC’s highly respected…
A farmer’s life deferred
Traffic guy at work opens path to distinguished career in trucking
Early on in life, Gary Strausbaugh, a top expert private fleet manager and NPTC’s highly respected…
A vehicle safety net … sort of
Technology can’t totally replace human instincts
All sorts of technological changes are occurring to commercial vehicles large and small these days—to the point where a variety of them are actually driving themselves, no human hands on the wheel required.
While self-driving trucks (at this point at least) still remain something of a future endeavor, other new technologies enjoy broader usage across the industry, especially in terms of safety: blind spot detection, collision mitigation, automatic emergency braking, and electronic stability control, to name a few.
A vehicle safety net … sort of
Technology can’t totally replace human instincts
All sorts of technological changes are occurring to commercial vehicles large and small these days—to the point where a variety of them are actually driving themselves, no human hands on the wheel required.
While self-driving trucks (at this point at least) still remain something of a future endeavor, other new technologies enjoy broader usage across the industry, especially in terms of safety: blind spot detection, collision mitigation, automatic emergency braking, and electronic stability control, to name a few.
Case study: How one carrier reduced its work-related injury, accident rates
A. Duie Pyle works toward safety culture that it says is driven by employees and continual training.
Over the past three years, LTL, truckload and logistics provider A. Du…