safety

  Driving vehicles while simultaneously watching video on a mobile telephone, texting, dialling and calling friends, or trying to connect the phone to the radio, is not the safest behaviour. But they're all activities that Australian drivers engage in while driving vehicles. Driver-...

Last week, FreightWaves ran an article on the ubiquity of cargo theft and how hijackers have gotten bolder over time, pulling off large heists without getting caught. Cargo theft is of concern because a majority of the crimes are not attributed to desperate lone wolves, but to organized crime...

There has been a significant increase in commercial motor vehicle fatalities over the past two years, and lack of seat belt usage was cited by a leading federal official as a continuing key reason. Jack Van Steenburg, the assistant administrator and chief safety officer of the Federal Motor Carrier...

Since the time of horse-drawn wagons and steam-powered locomotives, the freight hauling industry has had to contend with cargo thieves, who over time have become bolder and frustratingly better organized. It is hard to put a number on cargo theft in the U.S. because not all of the stolen freight...

Australian trucking continues to prove fatally dangerous to drivers, and to bystanders too, according to the latest statistics from Safe Work Australia, a statutory entity, set up to advise on a variety of workplace health and safety matters. In the run-up to Christmas 2018, the body released its...