Winter Driving
You should do this to your vehicle when driving in the winter
What is prepare your vehicle?
This is the number of trucks that are involved in crashes each year
What is 400,000?
Safety method that allows you to have maximum stability and support when entering or exiting a truck or equipment
What is 3-Point Contact?
Name at least 1 of the common dangers caused by speeding.
What are?
•Increased occurrence of rollover accidents
•Increased potential for loss of control as a driver
•Higher severity of crash if accident does occur
•Increased distance needed to safely stop a vehicle
•Reduced reaction time
•Possible failure to yield, resulting in an accident
A PPE that must be worn to keep from slipping.
What is a safety shoe?
When aiming high in steering, you should have at least this many seconds of eye lead time
What is 15 seconds?
Rear end collisions can be avoided entirely by eliminating this practice
What is tailgating?
Position your body should be when entering or exiting the vehicle
What is facing the vehicle?
How many total seconds does it take for your body to react?
What is 2 seconds?
What a driver should avoid or reduce to keep from slipping
What is wet or slippery areas?
When driving conditions deteriorate, anticipate dangerous situations and maintain complete awareness of your surroundings and increase this
What is Following Distance?
True or False:
When a driver follows another vehicle too closely, it changes what he is able to focus on.
What is true?
What you should not do to get onto the ground
What is jump off the truck?
Name 1 reason a driver speed
What is?
- Late
- Frustrated due to heavy traffic
- Blatant unawareness of speed
A driver must maintain cleanliness at all times.
What is good housekeeping?
If you start to hydroplane, don't panic and definitely don't slam this
What is your brakes?
Ture or False:
The larger the vehicle, the greater the following distance should be.
What is True?
Designed parts you should only use when entering or exiting your vehicle.
What are footboards, running boards, handgrips?
Name other reasons why driver speed
What are
•Increased occurrence of rollover accidents
•Increased potential for loss of control as a driver
•Higher severity of crash if accident does occur
•Increased distance needed to safely stop a vehicle
•Reduced reaction time
•Possible failure to yield, resulting in an accident
This is what happens when you are not aware of your surroundings
What is Distracted
The very best strategy for winter weather driving is to
What is to avoid it?
Driver of larger vehicles should increase their following distance to
What is 7-8 seconds?
3-Point contact instructs you to use at all times when entering or exiting your truck
What is 2 hands and 1 foot or 2 feet and 1 hand?
These are accident types caused by speeding
What are?
•Increased occurrence of rollover accidents
•Increased potential for loss of control as a driver
•Higher severity of crash if accident does occur
•Increased distance needed to safely stop a vehicle
•Reduced reaction time
•Possible failure to yield, resulting in an accident
These types of injuries are the second leading cause of injuries or deaths, second to vehicle accidents.
What are slips, trips, falls?