Freight movers in other European countries, as this HandyShippingGuide piece details in France, have added them voluntarily to ensure no wine was involved in moving their customers’ freight. Here in the States, since 2006 Mothers Against Drunk Driving have waged a campaign to make ignition locking devices mandatory for drunk-driving offenders. In part due to MADD’s efforts, earlier this week the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Centers for Disease Control and the Governors Highway Safety Association hosted a National Ignition Interlock Summit. The daylong event was “a full-day work session to help state safety professionals figure out how to get a handle on drunk driving.”
In the area of emissions, the regs tend to roll from California to the rest of the country; with safety/in-cab technology, though, quite a lot has sailed west across the big Atlantic pond in recent years, from EOBRs to governors and more….
Read the DOT Secretary’s blog on the subject.