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FRA PUBLISHES LOG TRUCKING SAFETY MANUAL
RELEASE: August 11, 2009
CONTACT: Neil Ward (301/838-9385)
nward@forestresources.org
Rockville, MD – The Forest Resources
Association has published a concise illustrated Manual on Safe and
Efficient Practices for Trucking Unmanufactured Forest Products, directed
to logging professionals and the truckers of raw forest products they work
with. Profusely illustrated in full color, the ten-page Manual examines
the common causes of driver-related accidents; presents “best practices”
in establishing a safe trucking environment; and concludes by identifying
and discussing key “productivity and efficiency” issues specific to forest
products trucking.
A Virginia Tech team led by Professor Chad Bolding developed the Manual,
with funding from the National Timber Harvesting and Transportation Safety
Foundation (THATS) and support from Virginia Cooperative Extension and the
SHARP Logger program.
“The Virginia Tech team found that, while the logging industry’s general
safety record has improved over the past decade, the proportion of
truck-related injuries is growing, in many cases because of conditions
specific to our industry,” noted FRA’s Lake States Region Manager, Vickie
Hoffart, who serves as FRA’s liaison to THATS. “The action of loading is a
key area that needs attention, primarily to prevent injuries at the
landing but also to reduce subsequent risks on the highway.”
The Manual also addresses productivity issues, such as tare-weight
reduction, reducing turn time, controlling truck weight variability,
improving truck scheduling, and the pay-offs of a good preventive
maintenance program.
FRA members may order the Safe and Efficient Practices Manual at $5
apiece, or $2 apiece for any order of 10 or more; the Manual is available
to non-members for twice these rates. Please enclose payment with order,
checks payable to “FRA”; charge orders may be faxed to 301/838-9481.
Direct orders to Forest Resources Association Inc., 600 Jefferson Plaza,
Suite 350, Rockville, MD 20852, and refer to stock number 09-A-3.
The Forest Resources Association Inc. is a nonprofit trade association
concerned with the safe, efficient, and sustainable harvest of forest
products and their transport from woods to mill. FRA represents wood
consumers, independent logging contractors, and wood dealers, as well as
businesses providing products and services to the forest resource-based
industries.
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