Please have a SAFE Labor Day Weekend
AAA reports that it expects this weekend to reach record levels of travel since 2008 due to the good weather, lower gas prices, and the improved economy.
DetailsAAA reports that it expects this weekend to reach record levels of travel since 2008 due to the good weather, lower gas prices, and the improved economy.
DetailsA proposed rule that will require use of speed limiters on heavy trucks is still scheduled to be published by the Department of Transportation this week, according to the DOT’s latest rulemakings update.
DetailsSo far, Missouri is on track to have the highest traffic fatality count for the last 5 years.
It is only August and SW MO has already beat the number for the highest of the last 5 years, and we still have 1/3 of the year left, which includes holidays and bad weather.
DetailsI’ve said this many times, and still, car and truck drivers pull out into traffic, looking for other cars and trucks, and they don’t look for, so they don’t see motorcycles.
DetailsI have written and spoken many times about how we need to treat our truck drivers better, to save their lives, and those of everyone else in our communities on our roads.
DetailsYesterday we visited the Traveling Vietnam Wall in Springfield Missouri at American Legion Post 639. The Wall is a 3/5 scale of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC, it stands six feet tall at the center and covers almost 300 feet from end to end. The purpose of this traveling memorial is to remind us…
DetailsWe’ve lost too many riders, and have lost one more, and my heart goes out to these folks and their families.
What I call “left in” and “left out” crashes are the most common hazards to riders.
Car and truck drivers just don’t look for riders, and they tend to turn left in front of bikes, and then later claim: “I never saw him.”
DetailsThe trucking company involved has the responsibility to ensure everyone in our communities that their drivers are safe and not doing any of the above dangerous activities.
DetailsSad that safety conditions at a trucking corporation must become this horrible before corrective action is taken
DetailsBigger, longer, heavier loads, buzzing down our highways alongside our families, is not a formula for better safety for Semi-Trucks on our roadways.
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