A new safety video, Your License or Your Life, is being released nationwide, alerting professional drivers anew to the dangers around the rails. What about the three-foot overhang on a train. Yes, but trucks have overhang, too. Either one could result in a tragedy. So we included both in the video.
All vehicles carrying hazmats, but specific requirements can vary by state.
Lots of critical information could help drivers, but we were concerned about how to explain it without sending people into slumber. Enter America s Road Team captains to star in the video. The script was written by Neill Darmstadter, for 50 years an ATA safety expert, and Stuart Flatow, ATA s OSHA expert, with Operation Lifesaver. For shooting the video we found a location in northwest Georgia with plenty of trains and trucks. Our partners at Norfolk Southern and CSX were concerned that the amount of train and vehicle traffic might make it impossible to do the job safely.