The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance announced an upcoming enforcement event for the month of October in a recent press release.
The enforcement operation, labeled Operation Safe Driver Week will take place October 15th through the 21st and will focus on issuing warnings or citations to truck drivers and motorists “exhibiting unsafe driving behaviors” throughout North America.
This week-long event is part of the Operation Safe Driver Program, a program that was created as a way to “help to reduce the number of crashes, deaths, and injuries involving large trucks, buses and passenger vehicles due to unsafe driving behaviors.”
The CVSA says that “driver behavior [was] the critical reason for more than 88 percent of large truck crashes and 93 percent of passenger-vehicle crashes” in the United States, inspiring October’s Safe Driver operation.
Enforcement personnel will be looking for violations such as failure to obey traffic control devices and signs, traveling too closely, improper lane changes, failure to wear a seatbelt, distracted driving, especially texting, and speeding.
Drivers can expect a higher than usual number of law enforcement officers on the road during the event.