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I-94 Truckers Get a Heads Up

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If your business has commercially licensed drivers on the road anywhere in the region who will be on the open road during the period from October 16th to the 22nd, Michigan State Police motor carrier officers will be engaged that week in a "heightened traffic safety enforcement" aimed at unsafe driving behaviors by commercial motor vehicle drivers and passenger-vehicle drivers during Operation Safe Driver Week. Regular drivers will also be closely watched that week, as well.

Captain Michael Krumm is Commander of the Michigan State Police Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division. He cites Operation Safe Driver Week as "one way we focus on increasing traffic safety and moving Michigan Toward Zero Deaths (TZD)." He adds, "Last year in Michigan, we saw almost a 20-percent reduction in fatal crashes involving commercial motor vehicles."

Operation Safe Driver Week is sponsored by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, in partnership with government, industry and safety organizations. During Operation Safe Driver Week from the 16th through the 22nd, the Michigan State Police will increase commercial vehicle and non-commercial vehicle traffic enforcement in an effort to reduce crashes and traffic fatalities. The heads up by state police can help fleet business operators and other commercial enterprises from facing steeper liabilities and insurance costs when citations can be avoided through safe operations. 

Nationwide in 2013, there were 3,964 people who died in large truck crashes and 310 people who died in bus crashes. Many of those crashes were the direct result of driver error — both truck and bus drivers, as well as the passenger-vehicle drivers operating unsafely around them. 

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Operation Safe Driver Week is yet another in a series of enhanced enforcement efforts similar to the international roadcheck enforcement during the first week of June and last year's Eyes on 94 crack down in December, both of which the MSP Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division utilized stepped-up patrols and traffic stops along I-94 and other major roads in the region. 

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