Stop playing 'Russian roulette' with trucks

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By Alex Lennane

17/02/2014

Last week, the issue of truck safety made headlines when a horrific truck accident killed an Illinois Tollway worker and left a state trooper in critical condition. Unlike the weather-induced crash two weeks ago in Northern Indiana, which involved 15 trucks, this accident was caused by a truck driver who was apparently at the end of a 36-hour marathon trip.

This blog, by TranzAct Technologies’ Mike Regan for Logistics Management, suggests that there are more unsafe trucking firms out there than ...

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