safety

The hot topics you may have missed this week.

A year after studying nuclear verdicts in truck crashes, the American Transportation Research Institute is focusing on smaller verdicts as its top research priority while also looking behind the scenes of rising truck insurance premiums.

The circumstances surrounding the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant is an opportunity for logistics business to discuss their own policies around safety.

Companies may be creating unnecessary risk in their operations if they have an out-of-date policy and procedure manual, or worse, aren’t following it.

Boeing is in crisis management mode over the 737 MAX grounding and it cost CEO Dennis Muilenburg his job on Monday.

Boeing Co. and the FAA are under intense scrutiny from Congress in the wake of the 737 MAX crashes. The House T&I Committee held its fifth hearing on the subject Dec. 11 in effort to tighten FAA certifications.

Swift drivers react to driver leader’s instructions to chain up and drive in inclement weather.

This week: Doctors stuff Aussie truckers full of opioids; Prime Ministerial funding splurge on infrastructure; tech and data standards action points identified; trucker accidentally crushes his own car; trucking tax hike fight won… sort of; DHL Supply Chain vows carbon neutrality.

Almost half of fleets are using in-cab video or dash cams as well as a growing number that utilize video services, according to a new survey on fleet’s technology use.

It has been a dramatic week in Australian trucking: strip club bus-truck crash; nine months of jail; massive infrastructure works; trucker death; call for mandatory brakes; beer crates. And more!

American Trucking Associations President & CEO Chris Spear sits down with Craig Fuller on this episode of Fuller Speed Ahead.

Trucking software supplier Drivewyze is adding the dangerous mountain passes of Colorado to its safety alerts for subscribers of its PreClear weigh station bypass program.

Australia’s road transport industry has a way to go in ensuring gender equity. Research has found that female workers encounter misogyny, bullying and discrimination. In other Down Under Trucking news: mistake is no defence to trucking crime; supermarket boosts safety after loading dock death; logistics giant snaps up drayage business; CTI Logistics expects a small profit.

Updated CPSC policies on stroller safety and refrigerator certificates are expected to be published in the Federal Register on Friday.

Drivewyze worked with safety offices and law enforcement in 32 states to identify 500 high rollover and low bridge locations. It sends audible and visual warnings to truckers before they reach them.

A weekly round-up of events in Australia. This week: Melbourne forces trucks out of the inner city; cleaning up asbestos roads; obeying road signage fail; road train safety inspections.

A truck driver who was convicted and sentenced for dangerously driving his truck in a way that caused grievous bodily harm and severe brain damage to a young woman has escaped a much more severe sentence owing to bureaucratic failings.

Volvo Trucks says anyone involved in heavy-duty trucking has a “moral obligation” to make trucking safer.