Hazmat crash prompts Truck Security Coalition to demand adjustments by DOT
In a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg Tuesday, a bunch of truck security advocates known as on the federal authorities to take steps they are saying “will forestall hazmat crashes, save lives, shield communities, and put public security forward of company earnings.”
The letter from the Truck Security Coalition, which incorporates Residents for Dependable and Protected Highways, Mother and father Towards Drained Truckers, Advocates for Freeway and Auto Security, the Middle for Auto Security, the Client Federation of America, Youngsters and Automotive Security, and the Worldwide Brotherhood of Teamsters, known as for:
- Computerized emergency braking be required on all industrial motor autos
- Mandated pace limiters on all industrial motor autos
- As fatigue is a significant downside within the trucking trade, the hours-of-service rule must be reformed and restored
- Obstructive sleep apnea rulemaking to be reinstituted
- New entrant service proficiency examination
The letter additionally mentioned, “Anti-safety trucking laws within the 118th Congress will make our nation’s harmful roadways even deadlier.”
Particular laws cited by the teams’ letter included Ceasing Age-Primarily based (CAB) Trucking Restrictions Act (H.R. 267) and the Safer Highways and Elevated Efficiency for Interstate Trucking (SHIP IT) Act (H.R. 471). The letter additionally mentioned those that signed it additionally “stay against the teenager trucker pilot program mandated by the IIJA and proceed to name for stringent oversight.”
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The letter and the teams’ calls for have been motivated, at the very least partially, by the current derailment of a Norfolk and Southern prepare In East Palestine, Ohio that included a significant spill of hazardous chemical compounds. They mentioned vans carrying hazardous supplies are additionally a risk to freeway security.
“The East Palestine prepare crash has revealed harmful and lethal deficiencies within the rail transportation of hazardous supplies,” the letter’s authors mentioned. “Perilous deficiencies are additionally ubiquitous within the truck transportation of hazardous supplies. There aren’t any defensible excuses for additional delays when public security is clearly in danger.”
The letter added, “Authorities inaction and relentless opposition by particular trucking pursuits put the general public at pointless and unreasonable threat of a lethal and harmful crash. It’s previous time to concern important and overdue truck security requirements that can forestall hazmat crashes, save lives, shield communities, and put public security forward of company earnings.”
