Text messaging: Agencies, schools finding more uses in emergencies (Quad-City Times)
It is a well known and documented fact (Commercial Motor Vehicle Facts, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, April 2005) that commercial motor vehicle (CMV) driver alertness/drowsiness is a major safety hazard in modern day society. There are approximately 7.9 million large trucks on our roads today, some driven by drivers working excessive hours, complicated by a shortage of qualified truck drivers. Large trucks alone make up over 400,000 accidents a year with an average cost of over $62,000.00 per incident. In 2002 alone the Total Cost of Fatigue-Related Crashes (in 1999 Dollars) exceeded $2.3 billion! What is a lesser known and reported danger is the ever increasing number of overworked, overtired and highly distracted individuals driving noncommercial trucks, SUV’s and cars numbering over 220 million vehicles. While these automobiles are smaller in size and weight, they are no less dangerous in the hands of a sleep deprived or inattentive driver.
Text messaging: Agencies, schools finding more uses in emergencies (Quad-City Times)
If disaster ever strikes, Augustana College is ready to send urgent warnings across its Rock Island campus with a new tool: text messaging.
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CHP warns about dangers of truck-car conflict (North County Times)
SAN DIEGO ---- California Highway Patrol officers say that big trucks may be lethal, but three-quarters of the time it is the automobile driver at fault in truck-versus-car crashes that kill people, it was reported today.
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Education notes (Dallas Morning News)
Grant to help train truck drivers: El Centro College's Bill J. Priest Institute has received a $1.35 million job-training grant from the Texas Workforce Commission to train or upgrade the skills of 300 truck drivers.
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Would-be bus driver spotlights runaround (The Charlotte Observer)
Every time Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools officials publicly lamented their bus driver shortage, Shannon Price picked up the phone. She'd driven a Union County school bus for 12 years before moving to Charlotte. Her commercial license is valid through 2010. Early in August, she applied to drive a CMS bus. Surely, she thought, CMS could use her right away. All Price got were voice mails and ...
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Arkansas News Bureau (Arkansas News Bureau)
Racetrack manager evaluating expanded gambling as Supreme Court prepares to take up issue By Rob Moritz LITTLE ROCK - Nearly a year into expanded gambling, the manager of Southland Greyhound Park in West Memphis sees no sure thing, financially, in the new games of skill being played under the cloud of a constitutional challenge.
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Battle of the bands set for Saturday (Benton Courier)
Habitat Youth United and First United Methodist Youth of Benton will host the Battle of the Bands on Saturday at the rodeo arena of the Saline County Fairgrounds.
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CC Roundup: Falcons prove worth at Tiffin (Star Beacon)
The Jefferson boys and girls cross country teams showed why they will be a force to be reckoned with this season after both placed high at the ultra-competitive Tiffin Carnival on Saturday morning.Edgewood’s boys and girls proved they aren’t far behind, either, with a sterling performance at the Ray Sweeney Invitational at Champion High School.
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Arkansas News Bureau (Arkansas News Bureau)
State trucking officials support allowing Mexican trucks into U.S. By Jason Wiest LITTLE ROCK - While critics are up in arms about a pilot program that would allow Mexican trucking companies to operate within the U. - Friday, Sep 7, 2007
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37 Freshmen Benefitting from HHS Honors Scholarship Fund (Ashley County Ledger)
Recent graduates of Hamburg High School were beginning their first year in colleges and universities this past week. Thirty-seven of these college freshmen received scholarships administered by the Hamburg High School Honors Scholarship Board.
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bDay Watch:/b Top stories in a click (The Appleton Post-Crescent)
House Democrats, a union leader and a leader of small trucking company owners Thursday urged the Senate to block the Bush administrations one-year project to allow some Mexican trucks to make unrestricted long-haul trips on U.S. roads. a hrefhttp://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articleAID/20070906/APC0101/70906160 targetnew stylecolor:72A440bRead more/b/a
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Text messaging: Agencies, schools finding more uses in emergencies (Quad-City Times)
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