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Truck Safety * USA - Reaction Time Is Major Factor in
Time is a major factor in avoiding collisions
USA -Trucker to Trucker -5 Feb 2008: -- If the road conditions are good and your rig is in proper working order, fast reaction time can prevent most accidents. However road conditions are rarely favorable in the winter when storms routinely create slippery pavements, poor visibility, treacherous black ice and impenetrable whiteouts. But as we all know, the biggest road hazard when the weather turns nasty is four-wheelers. There is something about a little sleet or snow (even a spot of hard rain can do it) that turns car drivers into unpredictable idiots. In the winter, truckers have to allow maximum reaction time to stay safe... Racecar drivers are trained to react to dangerous situations in about half a second. It takes your average trucker three times as long, about 1.5 seconds, to react to an emergency. At 60 mph a rig can travel 120 feet in 1.5 seconds. In good weather, if you’re maintaining a decent following distance and no car has slipped into your safety zone, that’s plenty of time to act. In bad weather, you’d better at least double your safe stopping distance. But what if you’re fiddling with the radio, reaching into the cooler for a sandwich, taking a gulp of coffee or doing a routine mirror scan? Any distraction, no matter how fleeting, is enough to cause a problem...
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