{"id":1732,"date":"2015-04-28T19:50:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T19:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/ststar-rollovers-point-to-need-for-mandatory-truck-stability-systems\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:51:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:51:47","slug":"ststar-rollovers-point-to-need-for-mandatory-truck-stability-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/ststar-rollovers-point-to-need-for-mandatory-truck-stability-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Star: Rollovers Point to Need for Mandatory Truck Stability Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A second truck rollover in as many weeks on the new Herb Gray Parkway roundabout, illustrates why anti-rollover technology should be standard for manufacturers of heavy transport trucks, according to a <i>Windsor Star<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.windsorstar.com\/news\/parkway-roundabout-rollovers-point-to-need-for-mandatory-stability-systems\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interviewed by the Star, OTA president David Bradley said government should require all new tractor-trailers be equipped with electronic stability control at the manufacturing level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see it as a meaningful measure to help ensure rollovers \u2014 whether on roundabouts or other streets and highways \u2014 don\u2019t happen,\u201d Bradley said.<\/p>\n<p>He explained the large majority of traffic incidents involving trucks on roundabouts are due to driver error \u2014 whether it\u2019s the trucker travelling too fast or other drivers being reckless or cutting them off.<\/p>\n<p>Bradley pointed out that OTA developed a blueprint for municipalities on how roundabouts should be designed to safely accommodate all types of large tractor-trailer combinations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe give guidance to municipalities on geometrics of roundabouts. It\u2019s a tool they can use when they design them. We are not opposed to (roundabouts), but we do want to make sure they can handle trucks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Download: <a href=\"http:\/\/ontruck.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/OTA-Discussion-Paper-Accommodating-Commercial-Vehicles-in-Roundabouts_public.pdf\">OTA Discussion Paper &#8211; Accommodating Commercial Vehicles in Roundabouts_public<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second truck rollover in as many weeks on the new Herb Gray Parkway roundabout, illustrates why anti-rollover technology should be standard for manufacturers of heavy transport trucks, according to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,54],"tags":[337,262,263,338,339],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-operations-safety","category-technology-equipment","tag-anti-rollover","tag-esc","tag-rollovers","tag-roundabouts","tag-stability-control"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}