Archive for March, 2008

A RECENT POLL FOUND that 71 percent of Americans don’t know about move over laws. This legislation requires that drivers, when approaching an emergency vehicle stopped on a roadway with its lights flashing, slow down and change lanes to give the emergency responders space. All but eight states — Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Rhode Island, plus Washington, D.C., have some form of a move over law. An increasing number of states …

As kids they may have collected baseball cards, but now that they’re grown some drivers collect CAT Scale Super Trucks cards. Created by CAT Scale in 1994 to celebrate the life and work of truckers, the cards are distributed with every scale ticket. The front photo features a handsome truck, and the back profiles a professional driver. “As a company that has been so involved in the trucking industry, CAT Scale saw at the time that the Knights of the Road image of drivers was wan…

Call it nostalgia, call it devoted gearhead mania — the 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 is a success before it even hits the road. Sight unseen, the new incarnation of the classic muscle car drew 4,300 buyers on its first day of sale in December. A total of 6,000 people have slapped down a nice little deposit for a vehicle they won’t be able to drive until this spring. The completed car was first revealed in February. It’s priced at $37,995 and is available in black, silver and H…

WHILE NETFLIX AND Blockbuster Online revolutionized the DVD rental habits of most of the country, over-the-road drivers who are only home every few weeks can rarely take full advantage of mail-in movie services. Now there’s technology that caters specifically to drivers’ needs: disposable DVDs. Created by Atlanta-based Flexplay Entertainment, Flexplay disposable DVDs are designed to play for two days only. Drivers can pick one up at a truckstop, watch it within 48 hours …

Rumble strips, those grooved patterns on the roadway shoulder or centerline that alert drivers they’ve strayed from their lane with a rumbling sound and a physical vibration, are proving to be a simple, cost-effective way to reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities. In the first six years after the Delaware Department of Transportation installed centerline rumble strips on U.S. Route 301 — a two-lane rural highway — the head-on collision rate decreased 90 percent and fatali…