Driver Safety

Running Time:  5 minutes

Language:  English

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Safely backing up trucks, trailers and other vehicles can be a challenging task requiring more than a little skill. Every year there are many accidents resulting in injury and damage due to carelessness when backing vehicles.

Running Time:  23 minutes

Language:  English

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It covers proper securement techniques, working load limit and aggregate working load limit standards, determining the number of tie downs, when to re-examine and adjust cargo and commodity-specific standards. The program includes two animated scenarios: How to load cargo so the center of gravity stays low and why this is important? How to determine the number of tie downs needed based on the length of items being secured? Closed caption.

Running Time:  5 minutes

Year Produced:  1992

Language:  English

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Driving a tractor-trailer rig can be perilous. Some of the major problems and how to avoid them are addressed in this program.

Running Time:  19 minutes

Year Produced:  2010

Language:  English

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Offers a plain-English overview of FMCSA’s Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 (CSA 2010) and trains drivers on key fundamentals. This video covers the four components of CSA 2010: Data Collection, Safety Measurement, Safety Evaluation and Intervention Providing an overview of the seven basics (Behavior Analysis Safety Improvement Categories): Unsafe Driving — Fatigued Driving (includes HOS) — Driver Fitness — Controlled Substances and Alcohol — Vehicle Maintenance — Cargo Related and Crash Indicator. Further explaining the driver’s role in Safety Fitness Evaluation and Safety Measurement System (SMS). Based on version 2.0 of FMCSA’s Safety Measurement System (SMS) Methodology – Aug. 2010. This ready-to-use training program includes several components Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired

Running Time:  70 minutes

Year Produced:  2009

Language:  English

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DRIVING IN BAD WEATHER (9:18 mins) Newscast-style presentation dramatizes the blinding effects of fog, dust, smoke, rain, snow, and ice. Stresses the need to choose safe speeds for adverse weather conditions and explains when it is best to get off the road. Includes tips on vehicle maintenance that can help drivers prepare for bad weather. BREAKING THE ACCIDENT CHAIN OF EVENTS (7:04 mins) Dramatizes through vignettes the chain of events leading to a traffic crash. NIGHT DRIVING (8:49 mins) Demonstrates how darkness limits drivers’ vision. Includes tips to keep your car in shape for night driving. Discusses the biggest problems drivers experience at night and how they must adjust their driving habits. GETTING SAFELY PAST THE ORANGE BARRELS (11:52 mins) Promotes cooperation in protecting the lives of highway construction workers. Show what construction signs, signals, and markings mean and how to adjust driving when passing through road construction areas. UNLOCKING THE MYSTERY OF ANTILOCK BRAKES (15:45 mins) A private eye is working late one night and hears a crash – was it the brakes? Learn how to use antilock brakes properly and how vehicles equipped with them handle differently from those with conventional brakes. DANGEROUS CROSSINGS: A SECOND THOUGHT (16:30 mins) Dramatic real-life footage shows what can happen when drivers fail to yield at railroad crossings. Includes testimonials from people involved in railroad crossing tragedies. (This video replaced Volume I)

Running Time:  28 minutes

Year Produced:  2006

Language:  English

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Most employees travel the roads every day and many of them on company business. Each year, traffic accidents claim over 30,000 lives and cause more then 1,000,000 serious injuries. In fact, motor vehicle crashes are the number one cause of death on the job. Program comes with a separate DVD leaders guide

Running Time:  15 minutes

Language:  English

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EYE ON… DEFENSIVE DRIVING is a fast-paced program that instructs drivers on defensive driving techniques using hazard perception challenge methodology. A variety of scenarios on typical defensive driving situations are shown to drivers. Each one pauses in the middle to ask drivers “what did you see” and “what would you do next” questions. Drivers answer the questions on Video Scenario Review Blanks. The hazard perception challenge format helps drivers enhance their skill level, and it helps them – and you – see how well they understand and can apply the material they’ve been learning. It’s involving, fast-paced, and demanding.

Running Time:  13 minutes

Year Produced:  2009

Language:  English

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A night of revelry turns tragic when a popular college-bound student takes the wheel after several drinks. Dramatizes the events and decisions leading up to a drunk driving tragedy. Courtroom dialogue encourages further discussion about the personal and legal consequences of drinking and driving.

Running Time:  12 minutes

Year Produced:  2009

Language:  English

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This program instructs individuals who load and unload trailers. Covers safe lifting, safety precautions when driving on and off trailers with lift equipment, and more

Running Time:  5 minutes

Year Produced:  2001

Language:  English

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Automobile accidents cause nearly half of all accidental deaths in the U.S. This video shows how to survive and what to do after an accident.

Running Time:  32 minutes

Year Produced:  2006

Language:  English

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Helps Drivers develop safer turning and intersection skills. It covers city and rural driving, single and multi-lane roads, narrow streets, and roundabouts.

Running Time:  19 minutes

Year Produced:  2006

Language:  English

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Violent aggressive driving, or “road rage,” is a major public concern. This educational DVD teaches viewers how to avoid offending other drivers, manage their own anger, and disengage from an angry encounter. Preventing road rage is illustrated with exciting footage of on-the-road encounters between angry drivers and personal anecdotes from real people who have reformed themselves by practicing anger management techniques demonstrated in this program

Running Time:  45 minutes

Language:  English

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Shouldn’t your kids know the safest way out? The three versions show how to use all types of exits currently outfitted on Modern school buses and discuss different evacuation patterns. STUDENT VERSION (12:20 mins) Show children how to properly prepare for and execute school bus evacuation. Demonstrates how to safely exit from front, rear, side, and multiple exits, emergency windows and roof hatches, and when each exit is appropriate. Designed from classroom use. DRIVER VERSION (16:50 mins) Shows drivers how to properly prepare for and conduct an emergency school bus evacuation. Demonstrates how to assist children in evacuating the bus quickly, how to use all types of emergency exists, and how to secure the scene once the bus has been evacuated. Designed for use in school bus driver training classes. SPECIAL – NEEDS DRIVER VERSION (16:50) Shows drivers of special-needs school buses how to properly prepare for and conduct an emergency evacuation. Details how to release wheelchairs from modern restraint systems, how to properly lift mobility-impaired children, and how to assist hearing and visually-impaired children to evacuate the bus safely.

Running Time:  5 minutes

Year Produced:  2002

Language:  English

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Problems multiply when you mix trucks and speed. It is the driver’s responsibility to increase awareness of potential hazards that may occur and plan ahead for any possible conditions that may pose a threat to you or another persons safety while behind the wheel.

Running Time:  17 minutes

Year Produced:  2009

Language:  English

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This program explains how most skids can be avoided, even when conditions are less than ideal. When skidding is unavoidable, this program demonstrates in detail how to handle; front-wheel and drive axle skids, all wheel skids, spin-outs and hydroplaning. Proven techniques for recovering from both tractor and trailer jackknifes are documented

Running Time:  19 minutes

Year Produced:  2008

Language:  English

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Depicts winter driving hazards with footage shot in real winter conditions around the country. Instructs the viewer how to recognize hazards and avoid accidents. This is an excellent program for those having to drive in winter conditions.