The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will launch a study of factors that contribute to highway crashes involving large trucks. Driving the study is concern over the rising number of fatalities incurred in truck crashes.
The National Transportation Safety Board is urging Congress and the state of Arizona to create a review process to make it safer when autonomous vehicles are tested on public roadways.
Despite efforts to improve heavy vehicle safety, an analysis of U.S. crashes shows that heavy vehicle crash rates continue to rise.
You’ve probably seen video of cars crashing as part of safety tests. After all, the DOT has been testing and rating vehicles for front impact protection using data from crash test dummies since 1978. But what about trucks? Deborah Lockridge digs into the topic with some compelling videos in her All That's Trucking blog.
ATRI has released an update to its Crash Predictor Model, which among other things finds that women truck drivers are less likely to be involved in a crash than male drivers.
The American Transportation Research Institute's top research priorities for 2018 include smart cities, autonomous vehicles, and cannabis intoxication testing procedures, among others.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has updated its CSA Safety Measurement System website with the Dec. 29, 2017 crash preventability results.
A pilot study by Oregon State University illustrates the high economic cost of having too few safe places for commercial truck drivers to park and rest — but an indirect solution may be on the horizon. Analysis by Business Contributing Editor Evan Lockridge.
Drivers are a common factor in most crashes, but truck drivers are at fault more than we thought.