Too Fast for Conditions: Solving Trucking's Rollover Dilemma [Video]

We are seeing a distressing increase in the number of truck rollover crashes, and runaway truck crashes on mountain grades remain a problem. What are the causes, and how can fleets and the industry address them?

Brian Bullock, the founder Road-Aware Safety Systems, has been studying such crashes for years. He has a pretty good handle on the problem, and he's bringing a solution to the table. He joins HDT Equipment Editor Jim Park to discuss drivers' apparent lack of awareness of vehicle dynamics (and in some cases proper and safe driving techniques), and to explain how to solve this problem. 

Watch this Episode of HDT Talks Trucking to Learn:

• The inadequacies in CDL training  
• Managing speed on hills and curves
• How real-time, real-world vehicle data can prevent crashes
• How risky, uninformed behavior leads to crashes
• How truck rollovers happen
• The razor-thin margin between rolling over or not
• What driving schools could be doing better 
• How better technology and better training could prevent crashes

More About Preventing Vehicle-Dynamics Related Crashes

• Road-Aware website
• Mountain Driving 101 video series featuring Equipment Editor Jim Park
• How a well-designed driver safety program will pay dividends
• How Truck Drivers Can Effectively Use an Engine Brake
• Do Your Drivers Know How to Descend a Mountain Grade?
• App Helps Prevent Rollovers, Brake Fade on Grades

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