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Scott Tidwell

Sep 11, 2025

1:31
Tell me how the program started and what it involves.
1:36
So originally we thought about putting this program together.
1:40
Some research that was conducted at the Institute looking at safety critical events or crashes and close calls with large trucks.
1:51
What we found in that research was that about 78% of those crashes and close calls are actually the fault of the passenger vehicle driver.
1:59
And, you know, you probably hear all the time, people always want to quickly blame the truck driver.
2:04
But in reality, that's not the case.
2:06
That's not saying truck drivers are perfect because we still see about 20% of the time it is the truck driver's fault.
3:48
So do you have cameras on one of your trucks? Is that what?

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