The National Private Truck Council (NPTC) has joined together with PrePass, the weigh station bypass system, to introduce the Best Practices Safety Guide,
a tool to benchmark safety performance and improve fleet safety standings.
PrePass will be sponsoring this guide, and working together with NPTC to expand its membership and participation in the PrePass system as well.
"We are delighted to partner with PrePass and HELP Inc. to build a stronger, safer and more security-driven private trucking industry," said Gary Petty, president of NPTC. "This alliance and the Best Practices Safety Guide is an important step in achieving this goal."
The Best Practices Safety Guide will be an online interactive tool that is available to all NPTC members via the organization's web site at www.NPTC.org.
This tool is being designed to help private trucking operations:
-- See how private fleets compare to national averages for key safety indicators
-- Review the status of their company's safety indicators and explain the relevancy of each
-- Provide members with a unique and exclusive guide to a complete safety management system that will aid in the improvement of the fleets‚ overall safety performance and relative standing within the trucking industry
"The PrePass team is very proud of our new partnership with NPTC," said Richard P. Landis, president and CEO of HELP Inc. "Like PrePass, this new online guide will focus efforts and energies on safely managed carriers."
Launched in California in 1995, the PrePass system is utilized by nearly 25,000 carriers representing more than 225,000 trucks, and is operational at 234 locations with many more coming soon.
Twenty-four states have deployed PrePass.
For more information, contact Patti Burke at (703) 683-1300, Ext. 212.