We are continuing our discussion from our last post about the National Transportation Safety Board's report on tractor-trailer safety. The board suggests that the current standards should be updated to take new technology and recent research into consideration. The...
Month: April 2014
NTSB to NHTSA: Open your eyes to dangers of blind spots in semis p2
Investigators continue to look for clues as they try to understand why a FedEx truck crossed the median on a California highway and slammed head-on into a tour bus. This is the kind of tragedy the National Transportation Safety Board investigates. When the board has...
NTSB to NHTSA: Open your eyes to dangers of blind spots in semis
For a while now, the National Transportation Safety Board has been looking at ways to make tractor-trailers safer for their drivers and for the vehicles they share the road with. The NTSB, however, is chiefly an independent investigative body; the board can only make...
‘Scaffold Law’ study may push New York lawmakers toward reform p3
Every year, it seems, lawmakers in Albany try to get New York's "Scaffold Law" off the books. Supporters of the law say its strict liability rule has kept property owners and the construction industry in line: The threat of being held responsible for a worker's...