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TRUCKS' SAFETY * USA - New White Paper: “The ABCs of Driver Safety Training”
Driver’s Alert Targets Fleet and Safety Managers
Lighthouse Point,FLA,USA -Business Wire -September 29, 2009: -- Driver’s Alert today announced the release of its newest White Paper, “The ABCs of Driver Safety Training”, which provides best practices for what a fleet or safety manager should do to prevent at-fault crashes... Fleet and safety professionals will discover how a combined and integrated driver observation, online safety training program and driver risk leveling program can:* Predict and prevent at-fault accidents;
* Mitigate business and financial risk;
* Automate and compile real-time and historical driver data into a driver risk assessment system;
* Maintain the integrity of critical commercial fleet and driver data;
* Reduce fleet audit cycle time and costs.
* Nevada troopers in trucks spot dangerous drivers
Reno,NEV,USA -The Associated Press/The Reno Gazette Journal -30 Sept 2009: -- The Nevada Highway Patrol has begun putting troopers in big-rig trucks to spot motorists who follow too closely or cut in front of tractor-trailers... NHP Capt., Julie Johnson, says the statewide "Badge on Board" program aims to improve safety and cut the number of truck crashes... It follows a one-day pilot program in 2008 that involved troopers issuing 18 citations in northern Nevada and 65 citations in southern Nevada... Officials say troopers in the cabs of trucks will summon officers in marked patrol vehicles to stop and issue citations to motorists... (Photo from swindlemagazine)
* Drivers need to watch for trucks on the road
Detroit,Mich,USA -DL On Line -September 30 2009: -- Be careful out there. That’s the word for motorists after a spate of fatal collisions in the area... Perhaps surprisingly, most truck accidents happen during the daytime, and most fatal crashes involving trucks occur on less traveled state highways or county highways... Of 64 fatal truck crashes in Minnesota last year, 32 occurred on state or county highways... Twenty-seven happened on Interstate highways or U.S. trunk highways. Five occurred on local streets. None occurred on county or township roads... For whatever reason, rural areas are more likely to see fatal truck accidents. Most happen between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. during sunny, dry weather, perhaps because motorists are less likely to be on their guard... Probably because high speeds are more often possible in the rural open countryside, crashes here are more severe. Sixty-five percent of fatal and 45 percent of truck-related injury crashes occurred in the rural areas of Minnesota, according to the Minnesota Office of Traffic Safety’s 2008 Crash Facts... (Photo from media.fresnobee: tomato trucks run on rural) 
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