Posts tagged truck drivers
A safe place to park and rest: Bipartisan bill introduced to relieve severe truck parking shortage in the U.S.

The Institute for Safer Trucking thanks Representatives Bost and Craig for working to introduce the bipartisan Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act, which will help address a critical safety issue by providing much-needed funding for the construction and maintenance of parking facilities for truck drivers.

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Deaths in truck crashes keep rising as your government ignores safety solutions

Separate legislation on sideguards first was introduced in 2017 by Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn. His constituents, Laurie and Randy Higginbotham of Memphis, had lost their son Michael three years earlier when his car got stuck underneath the side of a tractor-trailer after crashing into the truck making a U-turn. Laurie Higginbotham now is a director of another truck safety advocacy group, the Institute for Safer Trucking.

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