They agree to disagree. That’s about all you can say about the respective viewpoints of most commercial truckers across the country, including in Ohio, and federal regulators concerning the two groups’ disparate opinions regarding newly instituted trucking rules. Those rules relate directly to safety, and their implementation this past Monday increases public safety by…
A number of voices within the commercial trucking industry enthusiastically endorse ever-larger rigs on the nation’s highways, saying that they would help to curb transportation costs and help operators’ bottom lines through the larger loads they would allow for. The Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) is not one of those voices. That trade…
It would be hard to estimate the number of Ohio motorists who own and drive Chrysler-made Jeeps. Given that those vehicles are immensely popular and perennial best sellers, though, a reasonable guess might be that the number is in the hundreds of thousands. At any rate, it is large, and a good number of…
Ohio is one of the busiest states in the country when it comes to the transportation of varied goods across its roads and interstates. Commercial truckers literally log scores of millions of miles hauling cargo through towns and cities, down highways, through tunnels and across bridges, with loads being destined for locations throughout the…
Every time a dire outcome ensues on an Ohio or other state roadway from a commercial truck accident resulting in the injury or death of a driver or passengers of a smaller vehicle, a number of national safety advocacy groups are noting the fact and keeping a close tally. Such groups, which include the…
As summer nears, traffic safety experts in Ohio and across the country know that rollover truck accidents become an increased risk on roads and highways. Commonly, rollover crashes involving big rigs — such as 18-wheler jackknife accidents — owe to a number of factors, most centrally inexperienced drivers, vehicle safety and maintenance issues, and…
If, while driving, you’ve ever thought that some bridges across roadways seem unduly low for some of the commercial trucks busily engaged in transit, your instincts are correct: With alarming frequency, big rigs do not have enough clearance to pass safely beneath bridges, and crash as a result. In some states, such as New…
There’s a war of words going on, although most members of the general motoring public in Ohio and elsewhere across the country likely know little or even nothing about it. The participants are the American Trucking Associations (ATA) and the Truck Safety Coalition (TSC). The former is the largest national advocacy organization for the…
Here’s a bit of irony that has recently been manifest on Interstate 90 in the most northeastern corner of the state near Pennsylvania: A highway repair project geared toward increasing traffic safety has quite directly led to a spate of truck accidents. In fact, more than half a dozen truck crashes occurred near Conneaut…
Many motorists get uneasy when driving in the presence of 18-wheelers and other commercial vehicles. But according to new driver safety data, the risks don’t necessary lie in the commercial vehicles themselves, but rather how other cars behave around them. And while motorists may want to point the finger at commercial vehicles for the…