Research by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has found that most front crash prevention systems do not work as well at preventing crashes when the vehicle about to be impacted is small, like a motorcycle, or large like a medium- or heavy-duty truck.
Following a serious highway crash in 2020, the National Transportation Safety Board called advanced driver assistance technology a great tool for preventing rear-end collisions, but concerns remained that it wasn't ready for prime time.
PreView is always on, detecting objects and Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) that may be located in a driver’s blind spot.
After investigating a 2020 multi-vehicle crash that included a motorcoach, three trucks and a passenger vehicle, the National Transportation Safety Board found that highway speed limits, commercial vehicle collision avoidance systems, connected technology, and more need to be addressed.
Read about HDT’s 2021 Safety & Compliance winner, Donielle Dziedzic, and how a background in environmental compliance helps her guide the loss-prevention efforts for less-than-truckload carrier A. Duie Pyle.
Find out why National Transportation Safety Board Member Michael Graham is advocating collision-avoidance technology — and why technology alone is not enough.
The U.S. Department of Transportation included automatic emergency braking for both light- and heavy-duty vehicles on its regulatory agenda, which identifies actions the DOT plans to take during the next year and beyond.
A crash so devastating it had John Vaccaro wondering if he even wanted to continue on with the family trucking business was a wake-up call to double down on safety.
The National Transportation Safety Board’s top 10 safety recommendations include eliminating speeding-related crashes, requiring collision-avoidance on all vehicles, preventing drug-impaired driving and eliminating distracted driving.
Non-profit Together for Safer Roads (TSR), along with a collective of fleets including Anheuser Busch InBev, PepsiCo, and Republic Services, recently announced the Truck of the Future project, a program to reduce large truck collisions.
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