Apathetic safety compliance can be deadly

Consider this a warning to all who feel nonchalant about safety: Inaction can be just as damning as wrong action.

Take, for instance, allowing disqualified drivers behind the wheel. You may feel confident in their driving abilities, but consider the consequences if something bad happens. Ignoring red flags can come back to haunt you. 

Let’s say that your “trusted driver” — a buddy of yours — ignores a rolling roadblock in a construction zone and slams into traffic, killing a motorist or fatally...

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FreightWaves Classics/Infrastructure: Orange means ‘caution’ and ‘safety’

Trucks navigate through a work zone. (Photo: Missouri Department of Transportation)

“National Work Zone Awareness Week (NWZAW) is an annual spring campaign held at the start of construction season to encourage safe driving through highway work zones.” NWZAW is being held this week (April 11-15, 2022). Although the Federal Highway Administration and each of the state departments of transportation want drivers to use extra caution in work zones 24/7/365, NWZAW shines a spotlight on work zone safety. 

FreightWaves Classics will publish a new article on NWZAW each day this week....

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