The latest stats showed 5,601 deaths across the nation from crashes involving trucks weighing more than 10,000 pounds.
that it would resume looking at requiring speed limiting systems in trucks weighing more than 26,000 pounds. Both the motor carrier and highway safety agencies first raised the issue in 2011 and announced five years later, in 2016, that they were developing regulations. Nothing happened until the May announcement.of safety improvements in 2019.The announcement drew 15,661 comments.
“They are counterproductive to highway safety, will exacerbate supply chain challenges, and won’t help retain or recruit drivers,” Spencer wrote. “Speed limiters take control of the truck away from drivers, denying them the ability to avoid accidents and unsafe road/traffic conditions.” Adler said that from 2011 to 2020, fatalities in crashes involving trucks traveling at least 75 miles per hour rose 164%. Deaths linked to trucks traveling 70 mph or slower rose 29% during the same period, he said.
“Speed limiters are going to be a real game changer,” Adler said. “The fact that we still don’t require them to be used is — there’s no other word for it — ludicrous. When you look at truck crash deaths, you start to see that speeding is a real problem for truck safety.”
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