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RESEARCH * USA - Keep on Trucking -- Safely
Fayetteville,Ark,USA -Today's Trucking -March 20, 2007: -- When 30 tons of big rig come barreling down the road, drivers in the path want to be assured that everything has been done to maximize safety and minimize the likelihood of a crash. To do this, researchers at the University of Arkansas recommend that trucking companies and transportation policymakers take a holistic approach to truck safety, and they have suggestions for where to start... Fredrick Muyia Nafukho, Barbara E. Hinton and Carroll M. Graham found that there has been only limited research on the performance of tractor trailer drivers and the reduction of road traffic crashes. To learn more about the factors involved in truck drivers' job performance, they examined a year's worth of data for 14,340 drivers employed by a major trucking company. They found that a majority of the drivers in the study - 80.73 percent - had good performance records... In part, research results support current efforts of the U.S. Department of Transportation to allow more driving time per day while limiting total on-duty time. The UA study found that when drivers' average miles driven per month are lower, the number of crashes per driver is reduced...
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