AAA: Drive to Survive this Winter Season
According to research by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, about 46 percent of all crashes involving bad weather take place during the winter.
Winter storms, bad weather, and sloppy road conditions are a factor in nearly half a million crashes and more than 2,000 road deaths every year. And December through March can be an especially busy time for dead batteries, flat tires, and vehicle extractions. With inclement weather in the forecast, AAA East Central advises motorists to take precautions to avoid deadly crashes and reach their destination safely.
People Who Drive Trucks For A Living Really Like Driving Electric Trucks
Gary LaBush is a driver for Frito-Lay in Queens. He remembers the first time he sat behind the wheel of a Ford e-Transit delivery truck. Like most first time EV truck drivers, he wondered if the vehicle was actually on. “I was like, ‘What’s going on?’” he recalled. “There was no noise and no fumes.”
Now, he trains other drivers how to operate the company’s delivery trucks. He said he would struggle if he had to return to driving a gasoline powered van. “I wouldn’t want to do it,” he said. “After being in this — it’s just night and day.”
US to Spend Nearly $150 Million to Fix Broken Charging Ports
The US Transportation Department is investing $148.8 million for repairing or updating nearly 4,500 electric vehicle charging ports in some 20 states.
This new set of funds offers 24 recipients in 20 states grants to upgrade, replace, or repair existing EV charging infrastructure, and relieve some of the common frustrations drivers have when rolling up to an out-of-service charging port. Biden has the goal of bringing at least 500,000 public EV chargers online by the end of the decade – and that includes fast chargers no more than 50 miles apart on major highways and interstates.
The new funds are part of the $5 billion National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program, which is funded by a $1 trillion 2021 infrastructure law. Under the program, “states need to operate federally-funded charging ports for at least five years, which must work 97% of the time,” Reuters reports.
Promoting Pedestrian Safety: A Guide for Truck & Commercial Drivers
By Jason Martinez
In the realm of trucking and fleet management, road safety is paramount. The statistics concerning pedestrian-related accidents in the United States are a sobering.
Pedestrian safety is not just a concern for the pedestrians themselves. It's a concern for commercial drivers, as well. Pedestrian accidents are a persistent issue on American roads, resulting in tragic consequences.
For commercial drivers, the consequences of being found liable in such accidents can be substantial. No one wants to be responsible for injuring or causing the wrongful death of another person.
What Self-Acting Fleet Control Means for the Industry
Self-acting fleet control brings everyday automation to this industry, finally. You can think of it as the connective tissue between systems.
