Importance of Driver Training
This is one of the leading causes of Line of Duty Deaths in the fire service.
What is responding to and returning from alarms.
Exemptions apply only when the emergency vehicle is involved in this type of operation.
What is an Emergency Operation?
This is identified as the number one cause of emergency vehicle collisions.
What is Driver Error?
Anything that is not secured and may become a projectile.
What is a Ballast?
Axels, Springs, Wheels and Tires make up this system.
What is the Suspension System?
This apparatus accounts for the largest percent of emergency vehicle accidents.
What is a tender / tanker?
This prescribes specific ways of doing specific activities. E.g. Begin at Point "A" going to Point "B" by following the prescribed directions.
What is a procedure?
Aggressive Driving, Driver Readiness, Age and Maturity, Health, Fatigue, and Habits are all examples of this aspect of driver considerations.
What are Human Aspects?
Eliminating non-essential duties or activities such as; casual conversation, listening to music, eating, and cell phone use, and unnecessary conversation while the apparatus is responding in an emergency mode.
What is a Sterile Cab?
Resistance to motion between two moving objects that touch.
What is friction?
Most emergency apparatus accidents occur here.
What are intersections?
Legal liability placed on one person for the acts committed by another person.
What is Vicarious Liability?
Space Management, Following Distance and Rate of Closure, Hazard Identification, Correct Braking Techniques, Speed Management, and Rollover Prevention are all examples of this.
What are Defensive Driving Techniques?
The two types of Transmissions.
What are Automatic and Manual?
The force it takes for a moving object to stay in motion in the same direction.
What is inertia?
The most common type of Fire Truck collision.
What are Rollovers?
The safety of others means the manner in which a reasonably careful person performing similar duties and under similar circumstances would act.
What is Due Regard?
67% rate ourselves as this type of driver.
What is an excellent driver?
Active vehicle safety systems that monitor and detect a vehicle’s roll condition. If parameters are exceeded, the vehicle will automatically execute proper brake control and engine torque reduction without the driver’s input.
What are Roll Stability Control Systems (RSCs)?
This is another name for Dive / Squat. This happens to the front and rear of a vehicle as you brake and accelerate.
What is pitch?
According to NHTSA Fatality Reporting System, this percent of crashes occur during emergency response.
What is 60%?
Considered the most serious form of negligence and is defined as generally willful or wanton misconduct, meaning acts involving intentional wrongdoing or reckless indifference toward others (e.g., vehicular death when one is driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs).
What is Gross Negligence?
55% of crashes annually are caused by this.
What is aggressive driving?
These provide continuous video monitoring of the vehicle interior and windshield view.
What are Onboard Video Monitoring Systems?
Also known as "sway." This is the rotation around an axis drawn through the body of the vehicle from rear to front in the normal direction of travel.
What is roll?