* DC - Safety advocates say a bill would result in more accidents involving big rigs
-- Families who have had loved ones killed in large truck crashes Wednesday joined law enforcement, labor and safety groups to urge Congress to put public safety before corporate profits... Despite alarming increases in truck crash deaths and injuries since 2009, some members of Congress are pushing a legislative overhaul of lifesaving truck safety laws and rules in the FY2016 Transportation, House and Urban Development appropriations bill at the request of influential industry executives, organizers said... So-called “riders” in the bill will force every state to allow extra-long trucks pulling twin 33-foot tractor trailers throughout the country, increase working and driving hours for truck drivers to 82 hours a week, allow exemptions to federal truck size and weight laws and stop a public rulemaking reviewing minimum insurance coverage for trucks and passenger carrying buses, according to Jackie Gillan, president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, which speared-headed Wednesday’s event... Joan Claybrook, chair of Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways, said she could not remember in the last 25 years a more industry-coordinated and comprehensive attack on motor carrier safety...
(Photo: A 18 wheeler truck accident) -- Washington, DC, USA - The Trucker - 14 May 2015Labels: rules and regulations, safety trucks
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