2024 Facts for Drivers OCR - Copy_14-14.pdf

‘The trucking industry also cooperates with state, local, and federal officials as well as organizations like the National Safety Council, universities, and other entities that study and teach safe and secure practices and provide related tools. Altogether, this collaboration produced an outstanding...

‘The trucking industry also cooperates with state, local, and federal officials as well as organizations like the National Safety Council, universities, and other entities that study and teach safe and secure practices and provide related tools. Altogether, this collaboration produced an outstanding safety and security record for the industry. Trucking: A Good Corporate Citizen Truck drivers are instructed to cooperate with motorists to make highway travel safer and more pleasant. The trucking industry's year-round safety and courtesy campaigns stress, for example, that truck drivers should pull to the right, if possible and safe to do so, to allow motorists to pass, particularly on hills. ‘They should also avoid creating moving traffic blockades. Even before the general public and government became concerned about environmental impact and energy conservation, the trucking industry was working to reduce fuel consumption and the noise and smoke created by some truck engines. Truck drivers do their part as good citizens by observing and reporting cases of vehicle breakdowns, accidents, and other difficulties as well as alerting law enforcement authorities to suspicious, erratic, and dangerous behavior and situations. Hundreds of letters are received annually by truck operators across America praising drivers for acts of courtesy, courage, and helpfulness toward the motoring public. Trucking: One National Voice The trucking industry is represented nationally by American Trucking Associations, Inc. (ATA). ATA ts a federation of motor carrier mem- bers, industry suppliers, 50 state trucking associations (each represent- ing all classes and types of truck operations within their specific state), five afhliated conferences (each representing a type of truck operation), five councils (professional societies comprised of individuals with specific job functions, such as safety, maintenance, security, etc.), and the American Transportation Research Institute. ATRI, as it is also known, has been engaged in critical transportation studies and tests since 1954. Asa non- profit, ATRI is dedicated to conducting and 14