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Jun 6, 2009

Truck Safety Checks * USA - Surprise Inspections Pull Six Trucks Off the Road



Chantilly,VA,USA -NewsChannel 8 -4 June 2009: -- Fairfax County police held truck safety checks on Route 28 in Chantilly and Centreville Thursday, inspecting the tractors and trailers for violations. The goal was to ticket trucks with violations and get them off local roadways before trouble hits... Police say they found defective tires, a turn signal that didn't work and a mechanical problem... The truck belongs to the company for which Milton Rebera, a truck driver transporting a huge load of gravel, drives. He's paid $180 to get the job done. But police say those brakes will not do... Officers then learned Rebera had already been pulled over this morning. He was ticketed $667.00 in Spotsylvania County because his load was 5,000 pounds overweight... Rebera says he kept heading to Chantilly because he wanted to drop off the load and get paid for the job... Out of more than 30 trucks, more than six, including Rebera's, were towed... Police say a crash on Route 50 Wednesday -- when a truck slammed into the backs of two cars -- illustrates the importance of such checks. Investigators say six of the truck's eight brakes were not working...

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Nov 28, 2007

Truck Fleet Safety * USA - Wireless Monitoring Enhances it

GPS-based systems becoming more advanced

USA -Fleet Owner -23 Nov 2007: -- Getting closer to fully functional "brain" making important decisions for fleets... Control Transportation's (ECT) FOLO System wirelessly monitors truck performance. Enables fleet managers to react before problem causes damage. Offers real-time look wirelessly, securely at all aspects of truck's operation... Tracks safety, maintenance, focuses on driver fatigue using built-in camera. System can stop truck completely if driver is clearly fatigued...

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Jul 21, 2007

Vehicle & Driver Safety Check * UK - Vosa targets defective trucks

London,UK -Road Transport -20 July 2007: -- As Vosa gets tough with international drivers in the South-East, Sally Nash finds out why the organisation is taking such a hard line. The figures are in for the first night of Vosa's latest International Vehicle and Driver Safety Check in the South-East and the news is not looking good: vehicle examiners checked 30 vehicles and handed out 11 immediate and six delayed prohibitions. Traffic examiners checked 19 vehicles and discovered that eight prohibitions were necessary. On top of the official figures there are the anecdotal tales - the Hungarian driver who did not have the right Community authorisation document and the Greek vehicle with a catalogue of serious defects and hours' offences...

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