{"id":2472,"date":"2011-06-11T03:10:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T03:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2011-06-11T03:10:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T03:10:03","slug":"groups-push-for-safer-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/groups-push-for-safer-trucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Groups push for safer trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/\">Trucking <\/a>Associations and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/\">Owner Operator <\/a>Independent Drivers Association on June 8 called on the federal government to begin researching how standards for crashworthiness for heavy trucks could benefit truck drivers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNHTSA has continuously developed crashworthiness standards for automobiles and light <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/\">trucks<\/a>, but to date has generally not applied crashworthiness standards to commercial trucks,\u201d the two groups wrote in a June 6 letter to David Strickland, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. \u201cWe believe there may be opportunities to enhance the survivability of professional <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/available-truck-drivers.php\">truck drivers<\/a> if appropriate, research-based uniform standards are developed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, ATA and OOIDA highlighted the need for improving cab structure and occupant restraints such as safety belts and airbags, strengthening windshields and doors to prevent occupant ejections, and installing more forgiving interior surfaces. \u201cOur organizations believe that improvements in truck occupant safety can be achieved,\u201d the letter concluded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaking our highways safer, especially for our drivers, is one of ATA\u2019s highest priorities,\u201d said Bill Graves, ATA president and chief executive officer.<\/p>\n<p>Todd Spencer, OOIDA executive vice president, said his group is \u201cmore than glad to join ATA in making this request to hold the safety of professional <a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/available-truck-drivers.php\">truck drivers <\/a>to as high a standard as all other motor vehicle users.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Trucking Associations and the Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association on June 8 called on the federal government to begin researching how standards for crashworthiness for heavy trucks could benefit truck drivers. \u201cNHTSA has continuously developed crashworthiness standards for automobiles and light trucks, but to date has generally not applied crashworthiness standards to commercial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[46,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3910,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/3910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}