Episode 28: Exploring Safer Roads

AMTA's Kelsey Hipkin and Dave Elniski chat with Brenda Suggett, Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals (CARSP), for our first episode of 2025, or Season 2 of Steering Change, if you will.
In our conversation, we focus on all aspects of road safety and ways Carriers and Drivers can apply research to their operations to improve their safety on the highways.

If you would like to learn more about CARSP, please contact Brenda at info@carsp.ca, or visit their website to access the newsletter, resources, and webinars: https://carsp.ca/en/.

Below are links to the studies and research mentioned in this episode:

• Truck Driver Training

  • Distracted Driving & Workplace Safety Policies: A Business Case for Employers

  • Are Truck Driver Training requirements meeting the Safety Needs of the Transportation Industry?

  • Improving truck driver and vulnerable road user interactions through driver training: A subject matter expert interview study

• Truck Driver Health and Wellness

  • Occupational health and safety risks in Canadian long-haul truck drivers

  • Prevalence and Risk Factors for Depression among Long-Haul Truck Drivers in Western Canada

  • Evaluation of Best Practice Programs to Improve the Health and Wellness of Truck Drivers in BC

  • Musculoskeletal disorders among Canadian truck drivers: Results from an intercept study

• Long haul Truck Driver Carriers

  • Occupational health and safety risks in Canadian long-haul truck drivers

  • Musculoskeletal disorders among Canadian truck drivers: Results from an intercept study

  • Prevalence and Risk Factors for Depression among Long-Haul Truck Drivers in Western Canada

• Bus Carriers

  • A literature review on bus drivers’ health and safety: a conceptual model

Tickets for AMTA’s Annual Conference, April 8-10, 2025, are available now on our website.

AMTA Award nominations are now open! Every year, AMTA celebrates the brightest and best of industry who make outstanding contributions to the commercial transportation industry and the Association through these awards, including our Safety Person of the Year award. Our winners will be announced at our 2025 Awards Celebration Dinner during our Annual Conference in April. Submit your nominations here. Nominations must be submitted by NOON, Friday, February 14, 2025

If you have any questions or concerns about this or other topics related to commercial driving and driver safety, please do not hesitate to contact our Member Services team at memberservices@amta.ca.


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