New Technolgy in the Trucking Industry

On the transportation side they said “It simply makes us safer as an industry.” Chuck Hammel, president of Pittsburgh-based Pitt Ohio. (2) “First and foremost, it gives you visibility as to when the driver is moving or sitting and exactly how many hours he or she has left to drive,” Hammel explained. (2) Johnston called the rule “the most outrageous intrusion into the rights of professional truckers imaginable and will do nothing at all to improve highway safety.”

Cars are something that almost every person has or will use in their everyday life or need to use their car to get to and from work or school everyday. Well in this paper you will learn about what technology has done to change the Automotive Industry as well as your everyday life. This paper will be focusing on the Technologies inside of the car, along with the Technologies that keep you safe and also a little bit about Self-Driving Cars. So fasten your seatbelts while you are reading this paper.

With all of the regulations and rules regarding the trucking industry, one might assume that the government is causing companies more problems than are necessary. However, there are very good reasons to have these regulations in place. First of all, regulation ensures the safety of all motorists on the nation's roadways, including truck drivers. Secondly, it is an important aspect of the country's national security efforts. Finally, it standardizes the shipping industry, making it easier for shippers across industry lines. Therefore, DOT compliance is vitally important for trucking companies, and everyone else as well.

Firstly, The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has estimated 2,200 lives were saved due to electronic stability from 2008 to 2010 (Villasenor). This demonstrates how technological advancements might even be scary at the beginning and hard to get used to, that it will be worth it in the long run. Next, advanced innovations are being tested, such as safely navigating through streets, to prove that this technology is capable (Villasenor). Without people driving these cars, and computers navigating through the streets instead, there will be less accidents as well as deaths. Finally, road deaths have dropped from 53,000 in 1970 to 33,000 in 2014, which is even more impressive when you hear that the population has doubled and the number of miles we drive per year has tripled (Dashevsky). This demonstrates that innovations have been working for the past years, if the amount of deaths per year have been decreasing. In summary, these technological advancements have improved our lives greatly over the past

involved in over 12,300 crashes statewide in 2016, 79 of which were fatal. Cellphone use

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration branch of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s released its Commercial Motor Vehicle Facts report in March 2013; that in 2012, there were 5,700,000 Commercial drivers operating in the United States and a total of 504,093 interstate freight carriers operating. There was also a total of 15,465 intrastate hazardous material carriers on the highway. In 2012 alone, there were 75,542 carriers permitted to drive on the highway and roughly an equal amount in 2011, with 75,519. The importance of all of these statistics is that with the ever-growing number of commercial vehicles on the road, the amount of accidents increase as well. In 2011, 3,757 traffic crash victims were killed in a crash with a large truck and nearly 88,000 were injured. The fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled is .136 for large trucks and busses and the injury rate is 3.8. The estimated costs of commercial motor vehicle crashes totaled $87 billion; with $39 billion from fatal crashes, $32 billion from injury crashes and $16 billion from property damage only crashes. Not all of these accidents and fatalities are commercial carriers fault, because there are other drivers on the road that are distracted or under the influence for instance, but there can be extra precautions taken to decrease the amount of crashes and damage. Decreasing the wait time, also known as detention time, at shipping and receiving facilities, allows the drivers to be driving

Federal regulations limit the number of continuous hours on the road in order to ensure that truckers get sufficient rest. This increases the pressure to meet schedules because they can't drive longer to make up for slow traffic conditions.

It has been reported that Truckers with Electronic Logging Device(ELDs) have been overly fatigued. Electronic Logging Devices do not let Truckers drive the last few miles to home it makes them stop the truck and rest, but the dispatcher says otherwise. Electronic Logging Devices are going to be put into place so Truckers do not have to deal with loose papers. There should be more than one way to log driving hours. Today drivers can use paper logs. The government wants to go to just the electronic logs to make it easier for larger fleets.

A potential worsening truck driver shortage is a major issue that could affect both Hub Group and the overall transportation industry as drivers are needed for the “final mile” of transportation regardless of mode. The regulatory environment plays a key role as recent legislation aimed at improving safety and reducing environmental impact is projected to reduce driver capacity. Specifically, stricter safety standard from CSA 2010 and “hours of service” changes have led to elevated requirements for hiring drivers and a reduction in drivable hours. While most major carriers already use electronic logs, the legislative mandate for electronic logs for all truckers is expected to reduce productivity of smaller trucking companies or owner operators who stretch the law today. Higher equipment/emissions standards like the California CARB compliance has caused some drivers to exit the market and resulted in higher vehicle expenses for those that

Transportation started off with the appearance of the wheel more than 3,000 years ago . The development of the industrial steam engine during the industrial revolution was a show stopper. Mankind has been behind the wheel ever since. In 1903, the first road trip was completed by H. Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker.They rumbled across the west of the United States until finally reaching New York. These man traveled more than 36 hours ,and consequently, spent about 8, 000 dollars in repairs, food, and hotels along the way. Both men inspired millions with their journey. As time went by,citizens learned to be responsible while driving. Enough people have no problem driving; nevertheless, leaving a unreliable “assistant” in charge of the lives of loved ones. All states should prohibit driverless cars due to their extravagant cost, total unreliability, and the future changes to laws that will potentially press more stress down on drivers.

The big question, though, is whether driverless trucks save lives as opposed to just reducing operating costs. Of course, the trucks have replaced a high-risk role that left employees fatigued and at risk of injury, but has it saved lives?

Understanding that vast risks that operating vehicles pose to our customers and the citizens of the Valley,

Plain and simple, this is a lie. There are privacy provisions in place for ELDs, which will give the drivers peace of mind knowing that their information is

In a perfect world the hours-of-service regulation could be implemented without friction or loss of revenue, however, nothing is perfect in logistics. Reviewing the requirements, the trucking industry should have just implement the regulation as required and started a partner system for long hauls that would fall in the 12 plus hours’ window. The original rule required 8 hours of rest after 10 hours behind the wheel or a total of 15 hours on duty, but once “modified in 1937, and last revised in 1962, drivers could drive up to 16 hours in a 24-hour day)” (Dilger, 2003, p.?). The regulation states that a single driver is required to rest after being on duty for 16 hours. With two drivers riding together to complete a cross country haul and only losing time to human needs. The practice would help eliminate fatigued drivers and also generate a work relationship between

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