FMSCA Study Reveals Semi-Truck Speed Limiters Decrease Trucking Collisions by Fifty Percent
While most people are well aware that driving at higher rates of speed typically correspond with more collisions and more severe injuries, the risk posed by a forty ton tractor-trailer combination barreling down the freeway at excessive rates of speed makes this danger exponentially more frightening. Simple physics mean that a vehicle as massive as a tractor-trailer combination is less responsive and slower to stop than other vehicles even at legal rates of speed. When these vehicles speed down DeKalb County highways at rates of speed exceeding 65 mph, the consequences can be devastating. Fortunately, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is currently studying the benefits of requiring speed limiter devices on tractor-trailers that will prevent them from exceeding 65 mph.