ATA Applauds Road Safety Progress
There has been “substantive progress” on more than half of 20 critical steps needed to further reduce highway crashes, the American Trucking Associations reported. Its report came four years after ATA published a list of safety priorities and urged policymakers…
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to do more to make trucks and roadways safer. ATA wants common-sense, data-supported regulatory and legislative changes to boost safety, President Bill Graves said. State and federal regulators and lawmakers have responded in several areas but there's much more work to be done, he said. Areas where no headway has been made include implementation of a national speed limit of 65 mph and speed limiters for all commercial vehicles, ATA said. In addition, the federal truck safety program, along with many states, “is moving in the wrong direction on truck-involved traffic enforcement interventions.”