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Help HDT Track Trucking Safety Trends
Help Heavy Duty Trucking and Work Truck drive the future of fleet safety by participating in our annual safety survey.
July 2, 2025
This annual survey aims to identify trends in trucking fleet safety technologies and practices.
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Whether it’s preventing crashes, protecting your CSA score, keeping insurance costs down or staying out of the courtroom, trucking fleets are finding that safety programs, safety culture, training, and technologies are more important than ever.
Where does your fleet stand?
The editors of Heavy Duty Trucking and Work Truck are once again teaming up to find out more about how today’s medium- and heavy-duty trucking and vocational fleets are working to improve safety.
We’re asking fleet managers, risk and safety leaders, operations pros, and others in the trenches to take a few minutes to weigh in.
And as a thank-you for your time sharing your safety insights, you'll be able to download the full research report from last year's safety study.
Click here to complete the survey.It should take less than 6 minutes to finish, and your responses will be completely confidential.
Let’s get a clearer picture of where our industry stands and where we’re headed.
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