We are seeing a distressing increase in the number of truck rollover crashes, and runaway truck crashes on mountain grades remain a problem. What are the causes, and how can fleets and the industry address them?
Brian Bullock, the founder Road-Aware Safety Systems, has been studying such crashes for years. He has a pretty good handle on the problem, and he's bringing a solution to the table. He joins HDT Equipment Editor Jim Park to discuss drivers' apparent lack of awareness of vehicle dynamics (and in some cases proper and safe driving techniques), and to explain how to solve this problem.
Watch this Episode of HDT Talks Trucking to Learn:
The inadequacies in CDL training
Managing speed on hills and curves
How real-time, real-world vehicle data can prevent crashes
How risky, uninformed behavior leads to crashes
How truck rollovers happen
The razor-thin margin between rolling over or not
What driving schools could be doing better
How better technology and better training could prevent crashes
More About Preventing Vehicle-Dynamics Related Crashes
Road-Aware website
Mountain Driving 101 video series featuring Equipment Editor Jim Park
How a well-designed driver safety program will pay dividends