On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:11:18 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:


"MTBSW" wrote in message
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I work as a safety and transportation regulation consultant with many of
my clients being in industries that use trucks but would not normally be
thought of as being motor carriers. Electric utilities for instance.
While they are primarily in the business of generating and providing
electric power they use trucks to build, maintain and operate their power
systems. And while they probably don't ever carry any body elses goods but
their own on those trucks they are motor carriers also and have to live
with all the same rules and regulations. A fact that some of them refuse
to believe until one of their trucks gets pulled over for a road side
inspection.

Fatal accident involving National Grid vehicle:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/reg...tion=email ed

The news said the driver was test-driving the rig to check on a brake
problem or its repair(?).

Poor fire truck maintenance has caused some accidents around here too.

jsw


"A woman in her 70s was killed today in a tragic accident on Interstate
495 in Southboro when a backhoe rolled off a National Grid truck
crashing into the car she was a passenger in, police said."

hardly a brake problem...bummer

Gunner

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