“It’s just really surprising and discouraging,” said Joan Claybrook, former head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
, called for new rules by 2024 requiring automatic emergency braking on new heavy trucks and setting new standards for rear underguards to prevent cars from being wedged underneath trailers.
Pam Fischer, a senior director of the Governors Highway Safety Assn. and a former director of the New Jersey Division of Highway Safety, said the Transportation Department was off to a good start. “We would have liked to see more known solutions included in the truck safety solutions of the plan,” said Peter Kurdock, general counsel for Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, an alliance of consumer, health, law enforcement and insurance industry groups.most wanted safety improvements
A rule to require such devices was proposed in 2016 but nothing has been done since then. Larry Minor, associate administrator for policy at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, said the proposal still is under consideration., which the safety board blamed for the June 2014 fatal crash on the New Jersey Turnpike that seriously injured comedian Tracy Morgan and killed fellow comedian James McNair.
Some of those solutions made it into the infrastructure law, most notably mandates for new rules on automatic emergency braking and rear underride guards. The law also created a pilot program to allow truckers aged 18-20 to take big rigs across state lines over the objections of safety advocates. “Younger drivers and inexperienced drivers crash more and licensing under-21 drivers for interstate commerce will lead to more crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks,” spokeswoman Norita Taylor said. “The issues effecting the supply chain today are not due to a lack of drivers, but because of increased detention time and other inefficiencies.”
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