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Congressional Staff Briefing on Truck Safety Technologies – Automatic Emergency Braking and Heavy Vehicle Speed Limiters
November 21, 2019In case you were unable to join us for Congressional staff briefings on truck safety technologies that we hosted on September…
Read MoreNational Work Zone Awareness Week: Truck Safety Coalition (TSC) Remembers Those Killed in Work Zone Crashes Involving a Large Truck; Families Call for Action to Support Automatic Emergency Braking in All Large Trucks and Oppose Teenage Truckers Operating Across State Lines
April 12, 2019Arlington, VA – This National Work Zone Awareness Week, our volunteers remember their loved ones who were killed in fatal work…
Read MoreGroup Letter to Congress on Automatic Emergency Braking and Speed Limiters
January 29, 2019January 29, 2019 Dear Representative: Imagine if there were solutions that could help save hundreds of lives and prevent thousands of…
Read MoreNational Survey Shows Strong Support for Mandating Speed Limiters and Automatic Emergency Braking on All Large Trucks
October 25, 2018CONTACT: Beth Weaver, 301-814-4088 beth_weaver@verizon.net Arlington, VA (October 25, 2018): The Truck Safety Coalition, which is a partnership between Citizens for…
Read MoreAutomatic Emergency Braking
May 23, 2017Despite years of successful use by leading motor carriers and numerous studies concluding AEB improves safety, this technology is not required…
Read MoreSafety Groups Respond to U.S. DOT IG Rubber Stamping Study on Truck Driver Hours of Service Safety Protections
March 6, 2017Study Created with Pre-Determined Outcome of Failure WASHINGTON, D.C. –Late last week, the Office of the Inspector General (IG) of the…
Read MoreJennifer Tierney: Congress must stop ignoring truck safety
February 20, 2017For more than 30 years, I have been advocating to make trucking safer, since my father, James Mooney, was killed in…
Read MoreDebra Cruz Letter to the Editor – The Monitor
February 17, 2017After I survived a truck crash on Aug. 8, 2008, one of my goals became to reduce the number of deaths…
Read MoreLetter to Secretary Foxx from Rick Watts
October 4, 2016The Honorable Anthony Foxx Secretary U.S. Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Ave., S.E. Washington, D.C. 20590 Dear Secretary Foxx:…
Read MoreAutomatic Emergency Braking – Prime Time for Regulation
June 24, 2016Written by Jacqueline Gillan, president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety. This is one in a series of periodic guest columns…
Read MoreTwo Dead and One Injured in a Truck Crash in Suwanee County, FL
June 2, 2016On May 12, 2016, at approximately 12:00 p.m., Benjamin Piechoczek, 19, and Jordan Gutheim, 20, were the occupants of a Volvo…
Read MoreOne Man Dead and a Woman Injured due to a Truck Crash in Deuel County, NE
May 25, 2016On May 1, 2016, at approximately, 1:25 a.m., Sophia Wooley, 26, and Victor Wooley, 35, were traveling eastbound on I-80 freeway…
Read MoreThree People Dead and a Child in Critical Conditions due to a Truck Crash in Montgomery County, TX
May 25, 2016On April 23, 2016, at approximately 11:00 a.m., a truck driver driving an 18-wheeler was on Texas 105 near South Walker…
Read MoreTruck Driver Killed in a Truck Crash in Riverside County, CA
May 25, 2016On May 11, 2016, at approximately 11:00 a.m., Miguel Rolon, 59, was driving a flatbed tractor-trailer eastbound on I-10, when the…
Read MoreOne Woman Dead and One Boy Injured in a Truck Wreck in Fresno County, CA
May 25, 2016On May 16, 2016, at approximately 5:00 p.m., Linda Iverson-Gutierrez was slowing in traffic on CA Highway 99, when a tractor-trailer…
Read MoreHusband and Wife Died in a Truck Crash in Edgar County, IL
May 25, 2016On May 17, 2016, at approximately 11:21 a.m., Clyde Kingery, 82 was traveling northbound on IL Route 49 with his wife,…
Read MoreTwo People Killed in Richland County Truck Wreck
May 25, 2016On March 31, 2016 at approximately 4:40 p.m., James Peagler, 80 and his sister, Jonell Peagler Weatherly, 78 were driving a…
Read MoreOne person dead, Two Injured in a Three Vehicle Truck Crash in Windom County, Vermont
May 25, 2016On April 26, 2016, at approximately 3:30 p.m., Dean Tkaczyk, 54, was driving northbound on Vermont Route 30 when her vehicle…
Read MoreFive People Injured and One dead in a Truck Crash in Lee County, FL
May 25, 2016On May 16, 2016, a truck driver was driving a tractor-trailer northbound on Summerlin Road in Fort Myers, when traffic ahead…
Read MoreElderly Woman Injured in Ambulance after Logging Truck Crash in Gulf County, Florida
May 25, 2016On April 26, 2016, at approximately 12:00 p.m., a truck driver was driving an unloaded logging truck on eastbound U.S. Highway…
Read MoreOne Man Dead after Semi-Truck Crashed into a Motel in El Paso, Texas
May 25, 2016On May 6, 2016, at approximately 10:15 a.m., a truck driver was driving a tractor-trailer eastbound on I-10, when he lost…
Read MoreTDOT Employee Killed in Truck Crash, Hickman County, TN
May 25, 2016On April 28, 2016, at approximately 9:40 a.m., a worker with the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT), David Younger, 65, was…
Read MoreMotorcyclist Killed in a Truck Wreck in Wagoner County, OK
May 25, 2016On May 3, 2016, at approximately 6:40 a.m., Daniel Childress, 34, was riding his motorcycle eastbound on U.S. Highway 412, when…
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