On-board Recorders: The “Black Boxes” of the Trucking Industry

From 1995 to 1997, the number of fatalities resulting from accidents involving large trucks increased from 5,091 to 5,355. Most crashes involving automobiles and trucks occur in broad daylight, on straight and dry pavement, during normal weather, and with no indication of alcohol or drug use. In the last four years especially, there has been an outcry across the country from various transportation, safety and trucking groups for a reduction in the number of accidents and deaths on the nation’s highways involving trucks. Ongoing national hearings are being held by the United States House of Representatives Ground Transportation Subcommittee to examine this issue. In the past month, such heavy hitters as National Private Truck Council’s President John McQuaid and Phyllis F. Sheinberg, Associate Director, Transportation Issues, Resources, Community and Economic Development, have been testifying before the committee. The on-board recorder has evolved into a tool that companies can use to help their drivers become safer drivers. The real-time data that these devices generate point up the deficiencies of less skilled drivers and the strengths of safer, more experienced drivers. When combined with safety training, driver incentive programs, and coaching using this data, companies are producing safer drivers.

• Record URL:
  http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/reports/1999/RP9901.pdf
• 
• Corporate Authors:

  National Transportation Safety Board

  490 L'Enfant Plaza, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20594

  International Transportation Safety Association

  Apeldoorn,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • Dole, Les
• Conference:
  • Transportation Recording: 2000 and Beyond. International Symposium on Transportation Recorders
  • Location: Arlington VA, United States
  • Date: 1999-5-3 to 1999-5-5
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 121-124
• Monograph Title: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Transportation Recorders. Transportation Recording: 2000 and Beyond, May 3-5, 1999, Arlington, Virginia

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Abilities; Countermeasures; Driver experience; Event data recorders; Fatalities; Incentives; Real time information; Training; Truck crashes; Truck drivers; Truck driving; Trucking; Trucking safety
• Uncontrolled Terms: On board equipment
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Freight Transportation; Highways; Motor Carriers; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01088097
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 30 2008 12:31PM