Refrigeration Safety

Refrigeration safety news, information, including reefer truck safety, rules, regulations from Refrigerated Transporter magazine

Top truck drivers, owner operators honored by TCA

The Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) honored the top TCA-member company drivers and owner operators during its recent annual convention in Orlando, Florida...

TCA safety awards

The Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) honored Rocha Transportation Roehl Transport during the Annual National Fleet Safety Awards...

FMCSA improves medical
requirements for drivers

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has taken new steps toward improving standards and setting uniform requirements for medical examiners....

Forklift safety practices
vary, survey discovers

Limb, pedestrian, and other worker injuries seem to be the most common safety problem associated with lift trucks, found a recently completed survey on lift truck safety by the International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses (IARW)....

Operation Safe Driver
focus: decision-making

Each year, more than 44,000 people die on roadways throughout North America, often the direct result of unsafe and aggressive driving practices by passenger and commercial vehicle drivers. During the week of October 19-25, law enforcement across North America will respond by targeting these drivers during the Operation Safe Driver campaign....

Brake Safety Week strives
to halt dangerous problem

This week, the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA) is launching its annual Brake Safety Week, a program to promote commercial vehicle brake safety across North America....

ATA thanks Mack Trucks
for its support of safety

Bill Graves, president and chief executive officer of the American Trucking Associations, thanked executives and employees of Mack Trucks Inc. for the company’s continuing support of the ATA’s Share the Road highway safety initiative....

Cross-border trucking
demo project extended

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is extending the cross-border trucking demonstration project for two years, and Mexican trucks will continue to participate....

DOT drug testing Reducing problems at collection sites
, By David A Kolman

Undercover Investigations by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) at collections sites for US Department of Transportation (DOT)-certified drug and alcohol test collection sites have found problems...

Improving safety on rural roads

The US Department of Transportation has announced that the University of Minnesota will be home to a new national clearinghouse for information about the best way to make rural roads safer...

Roadcheck finds low
out-of-service rate

Despite concerns that a weakening economy, combined with ever-increasing fuel prices, would push safety to the bottom of the list for commercial fleets, vehicle safety inspections carried out on North America’s roadways found the lowest rate of out-of-service vehicles—23.9%—in two decades....

Grote adds vehicle safety systems

Grote Industries has expanded its product offerings with the introduction of a variety of new products. Its Hi Count LED (light emitting diode) signal...

Creating a safer environment
, David A Kolman david.kolman@penton.com

Warehouses are dangerous places. With all the many concurrent activities, there is the constant potential for accidents, often resulting in injuries,...

Wal-Mart adopts Global
Food Safety Initiative

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has become the first nationwide grocery chain to require suppliers of its private label and other food products such as produce, meat, fish, poultry, and ready-to-eat foods to have their factories certified against one of the internationally recognized Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) standards....

Interactive workplace safety training from Instructional Technologies

A new suite of lessons for training on OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) and Workplace Safety practices has been added to Instructional...

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