Arnold Safety Blog

Another story from last week: on Friday, September 12 in Chatsworth, CA, just west of Los Angeles, a commuter train ran head-on into a freight train. At least 25 were killed.
What does this tragedy have to do with trucking? The evidence is pointing towards an error by the engineer of the commuter [...]

This is somewhat old news, but I’ve been buried in work, and haven’t had time to update the website in a few weeks. Anyway, Fast Eddie Rendell has been trying to soak the taxpayers here in PA every way he can think of. One of his best ideas is to make I-80, a [...]

Whoops. I knew I forgot something. This happened Tuesday August 26, 2008 at 5pm in Grand Prairie, TX.
The truck was at a truck-stop which is adjacent to (and uphill from, apparently) the McDonald’s. Next thing you know, the truck, without the driver, is inside the McDonald’s. The driver says he did [...]

By now, you may have heard about the fatal bus crash, which happened last Friday, August 8 just north of Dallas, TX on US 75. A bus, carrying a tour of Vietnamese Catholics heading for Missouri, blew a tire around 12:45am, careened off the road, onto its side, ultimately killing 17 of the passengers. [...]

I read this in the print version of Transport Topics. I couldn’t find the article on-line, but let me summarize. Congressman James Oberstar (D-Minn), Chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has put FMCSA on notice that if they do not publish regulations mandating more stringent medical qualification guidelines for drivers by the [...]

Here’s a fatal crash that escaped my attention until now. This happened on April 11, 2003 in Glen Rock, PA, York County. That’s just down the road from me. A 21 year old driver of a 26,000 GVWR dump truck (non-CDL) lost his brakes on a steep hill, crashed into several cars [...]

Here is a very long piece by the Associated Press detailing what they believe to be a major safety problem. To read the whole thing, go to the link. In summary, the article says that the FMCSA has dropped the ball by not writing more stringent regulations to prevent unhealthy truck drivers from [...]

This happened Monday, June 23, 2008 in the Chinatown section of Manhattan.
A dump truck coming down the off-ramp from the Manhattan Bridge lost control, and slammed into the back of a parked bus, which was loading passengers at the time. The truck driver said the brakes failed. One person was killed, and 3 [...]

Today, in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the 2nd Amendment, and struck down the handgun ban in the District Columbia. For you wannabe lawyers, the opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller is HERE.
Well, that’s kind of scary there are 4 Communist judges on the Supreme Court who can read a simple [...]

The DOT has issued a rulemaking, which affects the way drug and alcohol testing is conducted. Go here to review the changes.
Most of it is inside baseball, which has no bearing on motor carriers or nearly all drivers. However, there is one significant change. Starting 8/25/08, all return-to-duty tests and follow-up tests [...]