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Local delivery Sugar Land, Texas, drivers are on alert after three armed robberies over the past three days.
Police are trying to determine whether they are connected, but they all have similar circumstances. The latest happened Monday morning in Sugar Land.
Sugar Land police say a man held a UPS driver up at gunpoint on Ellicot Way, and took his UPS shirt, and his truck.
“Every fleet wants event data because that’s what’s going to tell you what really happened if a crash occurs – especially if that data can help exonerate both driver and fleet,” he told me.
Now, a lot of motor carriers and drivers also rightly worry about such “event data” solidly affixing the blame for truck-car collisions on their shoulders, but in actuality, the fault for such crashes lies solidly with car drivers.
Indeed, a study conducted by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that car drivers are the ones at fault for triggering truck-car crashes about 75% of the time.
Every new UPS Class 8 tractor features collision mitigation technology
UPS (NYSE: UPS), which operates one of the nation’s largest commercial trucking fleets, is making collision mitigation technology standard equipment on every new Class 8 tractor the company orders. Each of the more than 2,600 new Class 8 tractors that UPS takes delivery of in 2015 will feature this accident mitigation technology, which alerts drivers to moving and stationary objects in front of the tractor and moving objects surrounding the vehicle.