Arnold Safety Blog

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Oberstar (D-Minn), Chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has put FMCSA on notice that if they do not publish regulations mandating more stringent medical qualification guidelines for drivers by the [...]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 [...]

This happened early in June, 2008. It’s really your run-of-the-mill accident, no injuries, but what I found interesting from the article is the box-van driver was 19. The Federal regulations require that vehicles with a Gross Vehicle Weight Rating of over 10,000 lbs. be at least 21. However, nearly all States allow [...]

US Department of Transportation Secretary Mary Peters reported that Americans are driving less in 2008 than in 2007. In fact, over the past 6 months, the amount of mileage has declined every month as compared to its 2007 counterpart. This just goes to show that the laws of supply and demand do work. [...]

Here’s a story from Canada. In June, 2007, a truck driver was killed when 3 idiots drag racing on the highway ran him off the road. Yesterday, one of them was sentenced to two years house arrest, and a lifetime ban on driving. The story is below. Seems like truck drivers’ [...]

Here’s another article on how to improve fuel economy, lifted from the Yahoo-Finance homepage, where I go every day to see how much money I’m losing in the stock market. Pretty much your standard fare, although if you’re seeing it for the first time, there’s good information in there.

“Here are six ways drivers typically [...]

Secretary of Transportation, Mary Peters, has recently unveiled a new blog. I’m not sure if there will be anything interesting on there….. I suppose anything is possible. Rest assured: the blog is 1) being written by some low-level flunky, 2) being written by lawyers, or 3) being written by Peters, and then [...]

High gas prices are simply crushing everybody’s standard of living. Everything costs more…. food, entertainment, housing, everything.

I found an old article I wrote 2 years ago about how to save money on fuel. I edited it to make it current (I changed “$3 gas will soon be here” to “$5 will soon be [...]

I haven’t posted anything in awhile. Why? Well, let’s just say, if you’re not backing up your computer files, you should be. One day you’re going to push the “ON” button on your trusty laptop, and it’s just going to sit there. I was 80% ready for that awful day, next [...]

This week, airlines, led by American Airlines, have grounded over 1,000 flights due to airliners not meeting FAA inspection standards. See article here. Apparently, the FAA issued a directive some time ago that a wiring bundle at the fuel pump must be secured in such a way that the wires don’t move, and [...]