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The National Transportation Safety Board said in a report issued Thursday that the medical incapacitation of an Eagle Express truck driver led to the fatal, Jan.

Medical condition to blame for crash killing 7 on I-75 near Alachua, NTSB says 5 of the 7 victims where children on their way to Walt Disney World Tags:  Deadly crash on Interstate 75 on Jan. 3, 2019 (Copyright 2021 by WKMG ClickOrlando - All rights reserved.) ALACHUA, Fla. – The truck driver who caused a deadly five-car crash on Jan. 3, 2019, on Interstate 75 had a number of medical conditions which may have contributed to the wreck, according to the National Transportation Safety Bureau. T...

From the advent of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s CSA Safety Measurement System in 2010, its shortcomings were well-evident to carriers and baked into its structure. At that time, carriers were focused on scoring inequities, particularly when comparing the way a small carriers scores moved wildly, because of very little data input to average, versus the slow climbs and falls with more data on the large-carrier side. Theres since been refinement of a feeling among critics ...

Clark Freight Lines, with 180 trucks, used to routinely file lots of DataQs RDRs (Requests for Data Review) but met with little success, said Vice President Danny Schnautz. He gave the example of a violation for an air leak that wasn’t in fact a safety violation. “What we found out was it made the police department really mad,” he said, particularly when the challenge was filed with little in the way of hard evidence. “Now we don’t dispute it unless we have real proof.” Depen...