Trucks and Safety
Re “Technology Offers Trucking Firms New Safety Strategies,” Aug. 17: One way to increase highway safety is to encourage intermodal freight for long-distance shipments. Such shipments can be loaded into containers, picked up by trucks and placed on intermodal railroad flatcars. At their destination, local truckers deliver the containers to the consignees.
In most cases that will reduce the number of trucks on the highways, together with their sleep-deprived drivers. Reducing the number of trucks in motion alone should increase highway safety.
ANDREW LANDAY
Santa Monica
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