CV-STAC Highlights 

Webinar Series: Best Practices for Crash Data Tools

 

Crash data query tools can be used to provide information to assist with crash reporting, planning, and programming. Expanding on the presentations from the Northeast 2016 Commercial Vehicle Safety Research Summit, this webinar series will provide information about best practices for developing and using these tools to decrease the incidence of crashes.

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A Major Success: The 2018 Southeast CMV Safety Research Summit

The 2018 Southeast CMV Safety Research Summit, hosted in Tuscaloosa, AL, proved to be a major success, with 155 attendees representing 22 states.

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Blog: Troops to Trucks - Trucking Companies Look to Military Veterans to Address Truck Driver Shortages

Law makers and industry leaders look to military veterans as a possible solution to the truck driver deficit.
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Blog: Lawmakers and CMV Operators Take Steps to Combat Truck Stop Sex Trafficking

Truck stops and highway rest areas are inherently transient spaces, and as such they are commonly used as sex trafficking sites.
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UMassSafe Awarded FMCSA Grant to Promote Safety, Complian and Business

 

This fall two Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Research Summits will take place serving the Western Service Center and the Southern Service Center.

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Two New CMV Safety Summits Announced

 

 

This fall two Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Research Summits will take place serving the Western Service Center and the Southern Service Center.

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Blog: The Impact of Driver Fatigue and Parking Shortages on CMV Safety 

There are federal regulations in place to restrict commercial truck drivers from being behind the wheel for more than 11 hours at a time and requiring drivers to take mandatory rest breaks. Nonetheless, truck driver fatigue is often a contributing factor in truck crashes.

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Connecticut Transportation Safety Research Center Awarded FMCSA Grant 

 

 

The Connecticut Transportation Safety Research Center has been awarded a FMCSA grant to train 60 Law Enforcement Officers in the area of Commercial Vehicle Crash Investigation.

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Blog: Latest Data on Large Truck Crash Fatalities

In December 2017, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) updated its summary on large truck crashes and fatalities to include 2016 data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) maintained by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA). The FARS data show that though the number of deaths from large truck crashes has decreased nationally over the past 30 years, there has been a recent increase over the last few years.

 

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Past Webinar: Planning for the Impacts of Decriminalized Marijuana on CMV Safety

 

 

UMassSafe recently conducted a webinar on the legalization of Cannabis and changing landscape around impaired driving. On April 2nd, Darrin Grondel, Director of the Washington Traffic Safety Commission, presented at UMass on the impacts of legalization on both CMV drivers and companies as well as law enforcement and drivers licensing, from the Washington State perspective.  

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Blog: 2016 Commercial Vehicle Safety Research Summit: Best Practices for Advancing Safety through Partnerships with Universities

Partnerships between universities and government, law enforcement, and state drivers licensing agencies can promote incredible change. These unions pair the discovery and dissemination of knowledge with the application of that knowledge. The result is simple: safer roads, fewer crashes, and lives saved.

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2016 Commercial Vehicle Safety Research Summit: Best Practices for Advancing Safety through Partnerships with Universities

 

UMassSafe releases the summary report for the 2016 Commercial Vehicle Safety Research Summit: Best Practices for Advancing Safety through Partnerships with Universities. This report outlines the content of all the presentations.

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Commercial Vehicle Safety Technical Assistance Center

 

UMassSafe kicks off CV-STAC with a resource-driven website. On the site, stakeholders can share their work and access information about commercial vehicle safety initiatives and issues.

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UMassSafe Seeks Information on Safety Projects

 

UMassSafe will use the Commercial Vehicle – Safety Technical Assistance Center (CV-STAC) to share state and university research and initiatives around commercial motor vehicle and commercial drivers license safety. Please tell us what you're working on.

Contact Robin Riessman at UMassSafe@umass.edu