safety technology

New Netradyne sensor works to eliminate drowsy driving

Driver fatigue is a common challenge that can have serious detrimental effects on drivers, carriers and the motoring public. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has amassed a significant amount of data surrounding driver fatigue over multiple decades, revealing that as many as 65% of drivers admit to driving while drowsy during a given year.

Drivers – in both trucks and passenger vehicles – are more likely to make mistakes when drowsy. These mistakes can have life-threatening...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/new-netradyne-sensor-works-to-eliminate-drowsy-driving

What will tame used truck prices? Apparently not even economic slowdown

Rising interest rates and the potential for a slowing economy so far are having no effect on runaway prices for used trucks.

“February data is the last we’ll have that does not reflect any effect of the Russia-Ukraine war,” Chris Visser, J.D. Power Valuation Services senior analyst, wrote in the company’s March Guidelines report. “Pricing in February continued to break records and, as of this writing in mid-March, there does not appear to be any war-effect yet.”

Nor would the first of an expected...

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Daimler Trucks adds safety equipment as truck-related crash deaths fall

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) is adding three safety features that could build on preliminary federal statistics that showed truck-related crash deaths fell last year while passenger car fatalities increased.

The new features for the Detroit Assurance suite of safety systems add more automation to trucking in speed control and braking. 

The advances coincided with preliminary 2020 crash data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that showed truck-related crash...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/daimler-trucks-adds-safety-equipment-as-truck-related-crash-deaths-fall