How do we keep drivers from driving too fast through curves or descending mountain slopes? By showing them precisely how fast they should be driving. A new app called Road-Aware can do just that.
Now in production for Peterbilt’s flagship on-highway Model 579 and vocational Model 567 is the RollTek protection system integrated with the premium Atlas II driver seats.
We all know some freeway off-ramp bends are too tight, but we sort of expect that. When the mainline of the highway has too tight a turn it can be shocking. All the more so when your eyes tell you the road is straight ...
A driver was caught on video recently in a hair-raising battle with a prairie wind. And this time the driver won.
A driver was caught on video recently in a hair-raising battle with a prairie wind. And this time the driver won. KWCH Television in Kansas City has a video clip on its website of the of the truclk just as it was caught in the wind. If anything had been different, and the driver, Guy Tapscott of Alabama, a little less than expert, the load would have wound up scattered all over the field. "In my opinion that was 70 percent divine intervention and 30 percent skill," said Richard Noeller who runs and teaches at the Kansas Truck Driving School. KWCH TV had Noeller, a former driver with roll-over experience, critique Tapscott's actions and said it was an amazing bit of driving.
A driver was caught on video recently in a hair-raising battle with a prairie wind. And this time the driver won.
2010 video by US Department of Transportation and the National Tank Truck Carriers. The purpose is to provide an awareness tool and training aid to reduce rollovers. This training video covers four approaches to helping reduce cargo tank rollovers by raising awareness.
National Tank Truck Carriers has produced a new version of the Cargo Tank Rollover Prevention Video it developed with the U.S. Department of Transportation to help educate water tanker drivers on the special characteristics of tank truck vehicles and the actions they can take to avoid rollovers.
Rollovers and jackknifes are costly, but modern electronic products seriously reduce their frequency, users say.
Meritor Wabco's stability control systems keep the rig under control, even if its driver doesn't.
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