Industry, Law Enforcement, ODOT Partner on New Safety Campaign
As part of Transportation Safety Awareness Month, Oregon has a new safety campaign aimed at getting the attention of aggressive car and truck drivers. The Ticket Aggressive Cars and Trucks campaign, or TACT, is designed to reduce truck crashes through education and enforcement. Specifically, TACT focuses on aggressive driving near the vicinity of large trucks. The Oregon Department of Transportation's (ODOT) Motor Carrier Division, in cooperation with local law enforcement agencies and the Oregon trucking industry, will introduce TACT to Oregon motorists. Law enforcement officers will be riding in commercial trucks looking for car and truck drivers doing dangerous things like speeding, tailgating, and changing lanes unsafely. Blue Line Transportation Company Inc., Oak Harbor Freight Lines Inc., Redmond Heavy Hauling Inc., Independent Dispatch Inc., May Trucking Company, Haney Truck Line Inc, and Bennett Truck Transport LLC are the participating trucking companies and are generously providing commercial vehicles and drivers. People in the Portland and north Willamette Valley area will start seeing newspaper advertising, posters, highway signs, brochures and more with TACT messages beginning next week. In the last 10 years, 3 out of 4 people who died in these collisions were riding in the cars. In fact, in crashes involving a car and truck, the car occupants are 15 times more likely to be killed than truck occupants. The Oregon TACT campaign is modeled after a successful operation conducted in Washington. For more information, visit the ODOT Motor Carrier Transportation Division Web site, www.oregon.gov/ODOT/MCT .
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