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OPINIONS * USA - View of Safety Technology Must Change Before Use Grows
Fleet Executives Say
New Orleans,LA,USA -Transport Topics, by Sean McNally -Oct. 24, 2008: -- Fleet executives said that despite the benefits of using safety technology, attitudes within the industry need to change in order to have wider acceptance... “Clearly, there is a big expense up front, but done right, it can become an investment,” Chris Lofgren, president of Schneider National Inc., said during a panel discussion here at American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition... Craig Harper, chief operating officer of J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc., said the truckload carrier spends “in excess of $50 million” annually on safety technology and training. He said the investment in safety has saved the lives of company drivers and the motoring public... Steve Williams, chairman and chief executive officer of Maverick USA Inc., said his fleet’s use of safety technology “exempted us from an $18.5 million final judgment” after a crash... Rose McMurray, chief safety officer of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, said that trucking fleets can push for wider adoption of technology... “One answer,” she said, “is for companies to try to promote the economic argument about why investing in these technologies pays off”... McMurray added that she thought as larger fleets buy the technology, smaller fleets will eventually follow suit...
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