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Safety - USA - ATA Asks States for Primary Safety Belt Laws
Other Initiatives Include Plea to Spend More on Traffic Violation Enforcement
Alexandria, VA,USA -Truckline -15 Nov 2005: -- The head of the nation’s largest trucking group today asked the governors of 25 states to push for adoption of primary safety belt laws in their respective states. Such regulations, in force in the remaining states, would allow police officers to stop and issue traffic citations to motorists failing to wear their safety belt while operating a vehicle... said states with primary laws have safety belt usage rates about ten percentage points better than states with secondary enforcement laws... Prompting ATA’s new universal primary safety belt policy is a recent U.S. Department of Transportation survey citing truck drivers with just a 48 percent safety belt usage rate, the lowest among highway users... Other proactive truck safety initiatives included: a) The ATRI's groundbreaking crash predictor study that evaluates and links past driver traffic violations with their likelihood of being involved in a crash, providing trucking companies invaluable safety-related information on their current and prospective drivers... -- b) ATA’s tacit support of a federal regulation requiring the use of electronic on-board recorders for documenting compliance with hours-of-service rules, as long as EOBR use demonstrably improves safety performance and compliance, along with other conditions...
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