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Sep 27, 2016

PASSING DISTANCE * Australia: Between cyclists and trucks

* Queensland - To trial passing distance technology

--- The Queensland Government will trial technology to enforce the minimum passing distance between cyclists and motorists... According to Main Roads and Road Safety Minister, Mark Bailey, the State Government was putting safety first by seeking technology to help better understand compliance with the road rules... We want to identify available devices that can measure the passing distance between cyclists and motorists to help keep people safe while sharing the road,” he said... Minister Bailey said the rule was implemented following a successful two-year trial, which required motorists to provide one-metre distance when passing at 60km/h or less and a metre and a half over 60km/h...
Brisbane, QLD, Australia - Prime Mover magazine - 25th, September 2016

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Apr 9, 2015

SPEED LIMIT * USA / NM: 55 mph the new speed limit

* New Mexico - Law will roll back default speed limit on county roads


-- Starting next year, you won't be able to drive more than 55 mph on New Mexico county roads where there's no speed limit posted. Gov. Susana Martinez signed legislation Monday that makes 55 mph the default speed limit on county roads... Republican Sen. Pat Woods of Broadview says the current 75 mph legal limit doesn't make sense for many local, narrow, dirt roads. He says these roads aren't designed or built for the higher speeds allowed on the state's highways and interstates... Woods says Curry County requested the lower limits on county roads for which the current law makes no exception... The new default speed limit will take effect Jan. 1, 2016... 
(Photo: Old farm truck on Etsy. Blue Chevy headin' up the road autumn day in New Mexico)  --  Las Cruces, N.M., USA - The Associated Press/The Trucker - 7 April 2015

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Dec 18, 2007

SAFETY * USA - Firm uses GPS to help truckers prevent rollovers

Device measures speed by satellite

New Hampshire,USA -The Boston Globe (Boston,MASS), by Hiawatha Bray -December 17, 2007: -- ... developed a new onboard computer for large trucks that could have prevented the rollover accident that devastated an Everett neighborhood this month... Heimer Sverrisson, chief architect of Cadec Global LLC in Manchester, said his company's PowerVue computer will go on sale in the first quarter of 2008 for $2,450, and can be installed in old trucks as well as new ones... Other rollover protection systems use an array of truck-mounted sensors to measure speed and side-to-side movement. PowerVue, however, uses a stream of data from Global Positioning System satellites to determine whether a truck is traveling too fast to turn safely...


* Bill addresses tanker trucks in rotaries - Communities could seek a ban
Boston,Mass,USA -The Boston Globe, by Kay Lazar -December 18, 2007: -- Communities could ban tanker trucks from local traffic rotaries under legislation slated to be unveiled today in Everett, where a speeding tanker overturned in a rotary this month and ignited an inferno that torched two buildings, melted 21 cars, and left about a dozen families homeless... Senator Anthony Galluccio, a Democrat who represents Everett, said his proposal is aimed at giving cities and towns more control over roadways that pass through congested neighborhoods... The tanker that rolled over in Everett spilled 9,400 gallons of gasoline, which caught fire and forced the evacuation of at least 145 people from nearby homes, including an elderly housing complex... (See Below)

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Nov 19, 2007

SAFETY * Europe - TIR trucks, buses to have anti-crack systems

Tour buses, trucks will be manufactured with additional security systems after 2010, UN member states have agreed in Geneva, the European Commission informs

Brussels,Belgium -Focus News/24 Chasa (Sofia,Bulgaria) -18 November 2007: -- ... The vehicles will have an electronic security system (ESC) planted, which will allow drivers to keep control of the vehicle in critical situations caused by road cracks or loss of control. The system reduces the power of the engine or triggers the brakes of one or some of the wheels by recovering the vehicle’s stability... It will help save 500 human lives annually and avoid 2,500 heavy crashes... The EU plans to make the ESC planting mandatory in all newly-manufactured motor vehicles in a few stages... The first stage will concern TIRs and tour buses... "These systems have a great potential for the saving of a human life, especially in heavy motor vehicles, where crash consequences might be dreadful", EU Commissioner for Industry Gunter Verheugen commented...

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Sep 29, 2007

* USA - Push to Keep 55 MPH Speed Limit for Trucks on Illinois Highways

From the Office of Governor Rod Blagojevich

Chicago,Ill,USA -illinoischannel.spaces.live.com -28 sept 2007: -- Governor Rod R. Blagojevich’s top transportation officials were joined today by traffic safety and law enforcement advocates in urging legislators to sustain the Governor’s veto of Senate Bill 540, which would have raised the speed limit for trucks in Illinois to 65 miles per hour... The Governor has fought to keep the 55 mph speed limit in place for trucks on Illinois highways for the safety of everyone who travels our roads... During Gov. Blagojevich's administration fatalities on state roads have dropped by 200 a year, the lowest levels since 1924... Other traffic safety measures signed into law by the Governor include:
* Chemical testing required for those arrested for hit-and-run;
* Harsher sentencing for causing a death while driving impaired; and
* Tougher penalties for driving on a DUI-revoked license.
(Pictures from www.islaiscreek.org: Truck Traffic on Illinois Street)

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Sep 6, 2007

Safety Measures * Canada - More Teaching called for

Safety and trucking experts are calling 2007 "the summer of the rollover"
Toronto,ONT,CAN -The Toronto Star -Sep 05, 2007: -- Truck-related accidents have caused so much havoc on Toronto-area roads recently that insider terms such as "speed limiters" and "roll stabilizers" – devices designed to make trucks safer – are grabbing headlines... But teaching motorists how to share the road and building up the professionalism of the trucking industry would be at least as effective as high-tech safety equipment in reducing the carnage and commuter chaos, say industry insiders... It also wants standardized driver training... (Picture from: 1about.files.wordpress.com - Car colliding with a dump truck)

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