ATA Truck Safety Research Findings – video

The ATA has released a video presentation that sets out the findings of a major Australian study into truck crashes. The video and a series of clips are available on the ATA YouTube channel.

The video features the Director of the Monash University Accident Research Centre, Professor Mark Stevenson, whose research found that:

• truck drivers with less than ten years of experience have three times the crash risk of more experienced drivers
• unladen trucks are more than twice as likely to crash than loaded trucks
• anti-lock brakes and cruise control demonstrably reduce the risk of crashes
• driving between midnight and 6.00am increases the risk of crashing more than three times.

Professor Stevenson is a leading injury expert. More than a thousand long distance truck drivers participated in the study.

The video is drawn from Professor Stevenson’s presentation to Federal MPs and Senators at Parliament House, Canberra, on 4 September 2014. The presentation was part of TruckWeek 2014. The you tube can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MiApzIn2CU