C.R. England selected Mobileye’s (www.mobileye.com) AWS-4000 camera-based driver assistance system for its entire fleet. The system includes lane departure warning, forward collision warning and headway monitoring and warning functionality.
Swift Transportation selected Precision Pulmonary Diagnostics as its sleep apnea treatment provider. PPD says its program is aimed at identifying and treating drivers with a high probability of sleep apnea, leading to improved driver health and enhanced highway safety.
U.S. Department of Transportation awarded nearly $3.4 million to eight states to improve safety and reduce congestion during bad weather through more timely information about road conditions. Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho and Minnesota will receive DOT funds.
Wyoming is dropping its speed limit from 75 to 65 mph through April 15, 2009, for all traffic on Interstate 80 from Laramie to Rawlins because the 52-mile stretch is prone to winter blizzard conditions. Officials also are installing variable speed limit message boards along the stretch; during hazardous weather, the speed limit could go as low as 35 mph.
A. Duie Pyle driver Yevgeniy “Gene” Bortniker received the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s “Saved by the Belt” Award, which recognizes CMV drivers whose lives were saved or injuries reduced as a result of wearing a safety belt.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in late October announced that it had accepted the State of Massachusetts’ periodic inspection (PI) program for commercial motor vehicles (CMVs). After reviewing the state’s program, FMCSA said it has determined it to be comparable to, or as effective as, the federal PI requirements contained in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs). The state requires CMVs to be inspected annually or within seven days of registration for newly acquired vehicles.
With the addition of Massachusetts, 22 states and the District of Columbia maintain PI programs accepted by FMCSA. In addition, the Alabama Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board, 10 Canadian provinces and one Canadian territory have approved PI programs. Two states have been removed from the previous list of approved programs: Arkansas no longer has a periodic inspection program for buses comparable to, or as effective as, the federal PI program; and Oklahoma has repealed its inspection requirements.
