Arnold Safety Blog

Here’s one for you motorcyclists. This was emailed to me, so I have no idea if it’s true or not. It’s on the Internet, so it must be true! Right?
The motorcyclist in the pictures was driving 120 MPH in the early morning hours in Oklahoma, when he misjudges how fast he was [...]

The FMCSA issued a press-release today, proudly announcing the use of seat belts by truck drivers has risen to 65%. Risen to 65%? These kind of statsitics are embarrassing to me, as I do consider myself a member of the “trucking industry”. We in the trucking industry are supposed to be the [...]

On Monday, March 17, 2008, a driver was killed by a piece of wood flying off a pickup truck. The victim was driving north, while the truck was driving south, when two pieces of wood fencing flew off his truck, one of which smashed through the windshield, killing the driver. The police officer [...]

I found this on the Internet…. so it must be true. I like to say that, kind of a joke about some of the things you find on the Internet. Anyway, it sounds true….
The lifestyle of a truck driver is not conducive to healthy living. Job logistics lead to stressful conditions, meals on [...]

Many drivers ask, “When I’m filling out my logbook, can I use shorthand when putting in the locations in the ‘Remarks’ section?” Instead of writing, Cincinnati, can I write Cincy? Or NYC? Or STL? The rules do not provide for that. They say city, town, village, and the State abbreviation. [...]

In the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 11, a Groendyke Transport tanker truck hit a bridge abutment, flipping his trailer over the railing onto the roadway below. The driver sustained minor injuries. The highways were shutdown nearly all day while cleanup crews pumped off the 8,000 gallons of butane into another tank.
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At a hearing on Capitol Hill Tuesday, March 11, Senator Byron Dorgan (D - ND) continued to fight the Department of Transportation on their plan to allow Mexican trucks full access to the U.S.
If you haven’t been following this story, here it is in a nutshell. Back in the 1990’s when NAFTA was passed, [...]

The American Automobile Assoication (AAA) released a research report this week, which concludes that traffic accidents cost American motorists $160 billion a year. That breaks down to $1,051 per year, per motorist. This includes such things as property damage, lost earnings, medical costs, emergency services, legal costs, and travel delays.
I think there’s a [...]

On Monday afternoon, March 3, a fuel truck flipped going around a curve, slid down an embankment, and burned, in Queens, NY.
The driver was killed, and it took 280 firefighters to put out the fire. This is another speed related accident. Vehicles with higher centers of gravity, such as tankers or hopper-type vehicles [...]

On Tuesday afternoon, March 4, 2008, a motorist travelling southbound on I-95 just south of Baltimore, MD, was killed when his car collided with a parked tractor-trailer. The truck was on the shoulder of the highway, where it had been pulled over by the Maryland State Police, Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division for an inspection.
The [...]