Why aren’t trucks as safe as airplanes? Should motor carriers be required to carry more insurance? On this episode of HDT Talks Trucking, HDT’s Deborah Lockridge talks to Lane Kidd of The Trucking Alliance about an essay he wrote on trucking’s duty to public safety.
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In This Episode:
- The mission of the Trucking Alliance
- Comparing the airline industry’s safety record to trucking’s
- Fatalities and injuries caused by large trucks since 2010.
- Emerging technology advancements like autonomous trucks and collision mitigation systems
- The Trucking Alliance’s ambitious goal to eliminate truck crash fatalities.
- The need to raises minimum insurance requirements for motor carriers and the challenges it presents.
- The benefits of raising insurance minimums
- Ways trucking could address the costs of higher insurance minimums
- The problem with so few motor carriers having safety ratings from FMCSA
- If victims of truck crashes were adequately compensated, would litigation drop?