NEWS IN BRIEF
FMCSA TO CONDUCT SPLIT- SLEEPER FLEXIBILITY STUDY The Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA) will study hours-of-service flexibility and driv- ers’ ability to split sleeper berth time to determine whether splitting sleeper berth times affects highway safety.
mine “whether added flexibility can result in reduced driver fatigue and improved alertness.”
ATA SAFETY COUNCIL HONORS ARKANSAS SMC AMONG TOP SAFETY PROFESSIONALS The American Trucking Associations’
FMCSA Chief of Research Martin
Walker said the agency plans to award a contract for the study and start data collection by January 2016. The agency is looking for 200
driver participants to undergo moni- toring while the researchers vary sleeper-split rules in some ways that resemble prior hours-of-service rules. “[200] would allow us to look at the different ways they split their sleep and determine what may be the best way,” says Walker. Participant drivers’ on-road behav-
ior will be measured by truck infor- mation system collected from fleet management systems or on-board monitoring systems to measure things like eye closure and drowsiness. Drivers also will be given three-
minute pscyhomotor vigilance tests via a smartphone app, and the results will be uploaded to researchers. Other data will be collected via
actigraph, which will monitor driver sleep/wake histories, heart rate, respira- tion rate and physical activity. The goal, says Walker, is to deter-
ARKANSAS TRUCKING REPORT | Issue 6 2014
Safety Management Council honored a number of fleets, safety professionals and a state association with awards at the group’s annual Safety and Human Resources National Conference & Exhibition in Orlando, Fla. “Honoring the people who go above
and beyond to keep our highways safe is one of the great things ATA does, and I’m proud to congratulate all of this year’s winners,” said ATA President and CEO Bill Graves. Among the honors, the Council
awarded National Safety Director of the Year to Becky Perlaky, executive vice president for safety, security and compliance at Kenan Advantage Group, North Canton, Ohio. The ATA
President’s Trophy went to Usher Transport of Louisville, Ky., Fort Smith, Ark.’s
own ABF Freight and Dupré Logistics of Lafayette, La. Jason Wing, Senior Manager of Safety Compliance and Training at ABF Freight, accepted the Summa Cum Laude Award from John Joines, Vice President of Safety at Great West Casualty Company, for Arkansas Trucking Association’s 2013 Safety
Management Council activities. “This year’s winners, and all our
hard-working safety professionals have reason to be proud,” said SMC Executive Director Brian Lagana. “Every day, thousands of committed professionals are doing their best to keep our high- ways safe, but this year’s winners all have set an example for them to follow.”
JUDY R. MCREYNOLDS NAMED ATRI CHAIRMAN
McReynolds Judy R. McReynolds, President
and CEO of ArcBest Corporation, has been named Chairman of the Board of the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI). Judy succeeds Steve Williams, Chairman and CEO of Maverick Transportation, who recently completed his term as ATRI Chairman. Judy McReynolds was first appointed to the ATRI Board of Directors in June 2010 and will now chair the Board
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