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TRUCKERS' HEALTH * USA - ATA: "Trucking safest it’s ever been"
ATA response to unhealthy drivers story: “If the federal government enacted ATA’s proposal to require speed limiters and lower the speed limit, many more lives would be saved”
Washington,DC,USA -The Trucker News Services -22 July 2008: -- The American Trucking Associations said today that while it supports the recommendations to improve the medical qualification process for CDL holders, the public should recognize that medical problems cause less than 3 percent of truck accidents... In contrast, speeding and aggressive driving cause 42 percent, and failure to pay attention causes 35 percent, Tiffany Wlazlowski, the ATA’s director of public affairs and deputy press secretary, said... In October 2006, the ATA petitioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to limit maximum speed of large trucks at the time of manufacture to no more than 68 miles per hour and petitioned the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to prohibit the tampering or adjustment of speed limiting devices to greater than 68 mph... Neither agency has taken action on the petitions... Wlazlowski said the ATA supports updating and improving medical qualification standards for CMV drivers that currently date to the 1970s... (“If the federal government enacted ATA’s proposal to require speed limiters and lower the speed limit, many more lives would be saved,” ATA maintains)Labels: Truckers' Health
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