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Truck Stops - USA - New rules would cut braking distance
Salt Lake City,UTH,USA -Salt Lake Tribune, by Lesley Mitchell/Bloomberg, by Rip Watson -16 Dec 2005: -- U.S. truckers, who deliver 80 percent of the nation's freight, would have to buy heavy trucks that reduce stopping distance as much as 30 percent, under proposed federal rules aimed at preventing road deaths... The changes may raise the cost of a truck $1,308, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said, adding that as many as 257 lives a year might be saved, reducing deaths involving trucks 5 percent from last year's total... The revisions would be the first since 1995 and would apply to almost all heavy trucks with air brakes. There are about 2.6 million such trucks, which weigh more than 33,000 pounds, on U.S. roads, according to the American Trucking Associations... The road-death rate for big trucks is 36 percent higher than the total rate, according figures from NHTSA and the group... Current rules allow trucks pulling loaded trailers a stopping distance of as much as 720 feet, based on a speed of 60 miles per hour. The federal proposal would reduce the distance by between 20 percent and 30 percent... The agency said as many as a third of such trucks on the road already can meet the proposed standard because they have technology such as electronic and anti-lock brakes...
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