Professional drivers face many safety challenges on the road, including:
- Season-specific road conditions
- Truck handling during merge/yield, backing, and turning
- Situation-specific conditions like work zones, railroad crossings, and low-clearances
The following resources address key safety issues, defensive driving practices, and techniques to avoid accidents for professional drivers.
*Only available for customers. If you’re a customer, please submit the materials order form.
Target Accident Reduction Program (TARP) training handbooks
Agents, do your trucking customers need reliable coverage?
Find a Northland general agent who can help.
Trucking Safe Driving Resources
Passing Safely
To pass safely, it’s important to interpret the intentions of other drivers. Watch for clues that the driver of the vehicle you are passing may be intending to slow down, stop or turn.
Trucking Safe Driving Resources
Preventing Rear-End Crashes
Why are rear-end crashes so common? Most drivers are likely to agree that distracted driving, vehicle speed, traffic congestion and aggressive driving are some of the main reasons.
Trucking Safe Driving Resources
Preventing Truck Rollover Crashes
Given the seriousness of truck rollover crashes, there are good reasons to work toward preventing them. Recognizing the causes is the place to start.
Trucking Safe Driving Resources
Adverse Weather
People are often not surprised when private passenger vehicle drivers make mistakes, but paid drivers are often viewed as professionals who should meet higher safety and performance standards
Trucking Safe Driving Resources
Backing Safely
There are several ways to help reduce the risk of being involved in backing collisions. The best way is to avoid backing whenever possible.
Trucking Safe Driving Resources
Railroad-Highway Crossing Safety
The probability of having an accident at a railroad crossing can increase during adverse weather or low visibility.
Trucking Safe Driving Resources
Drowsy Driving - Are you Driving Like you are Drunk?
Information about drowsy driving.
Trucking Safe Driving Resources
Low-Clearance Obstacles
Trucks striking low bridges, power lines, or signs is not an unusual occurrence, especially in metropolitan areas where these hazards are abundant.
Trucking Safe Driving Resources
Managing Speed and Space
Driving too fast for conditions, tailgating and not yielding the right-of-way are a few examples of poor speed and space management that can quickly lead to a crash, one that could do more than ruin your day.
Trucking Safe Driving Resources
Mobile Device Safety While Driving
Professional drivers have come to rely heavily on mobile devices to communicate while on the road. Doing so while driving is risky.
Trucking Safe Driving Resources
Passengers: Good Company - But Are They Safe?
Many trucking companies are taking a more cautious approach toward passengers than they have in the past.
Trucking Safe Driving Resources
Sharing the Road with Motorcycles
Per vehicle mile traveled, a motorcyclist is 27 times more likely than a passenger car occupant to die in a traffic crash.
Trucking Safe Driving Resources
Help Turn Work Zones into "Safe Zones"
More than 80 percent of those killed in work zones were drivers and their passengers.
Trucking Safe Driving Resources
Yielding the Right of Way
For most types of vehicles, the risk of being involved in a failure-to-yield collision is greatly increased at intersections and while merging or changing lanes.
Trucking Safe Driving Resources
5 Tips to Help Prevent Rear-End Collisions in Trucking
Discover five ways to prevent the risks and costs of rear-end collisions in the trucking industry. Learn how to protect your drivers today with Northland Insurance.
