Webinar Replay #43: Work Zone Safety

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Mark Rhea: Good afternoon, and welcome to the Infinit-I Workforce Solutions Fast Forward Roundtable discussion

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Mark Rhea: today is April, the thirteenth 2023, and our topic is very pertinent

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Mark Rhea: work zone awareness, and work zone safety. My name is Mark Rhea and I’ll be hosting today’s event. I have

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Mark Rhea: about 35 or more years with Frozen Food Express have worked multiple claims and training events around. Today’s topic

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Mark Rhea: work on awareness. We it’s a huge issue in our industry. It’s a hazardous condition that our drivers are all exposed to in joining me today. Our subject matter expert, Mr. Keith, Long.

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Mark Rhea: Mr. Long, will be going over. You know what national Work Zone Awareness week is, presenting some data to

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Mark Rhea: to detail exactly how big an issue it is out there.

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Mark Rhea: He’s also going to cover some, some content. If you’re a client of Infinit-I Workforce that you can put out for your

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Mark Rhea: so driving staff

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Mark Rhea: to get the word out on exactly how to get through, and what is a Work Zone Awareness. We also have a free trial for all. If you’re not an existing

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Mark Rhea: customer client, and I don’t know If we got that

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Mark Rhea: poll we can pop up there if you’d like to sign up. Just pop a yes on there right now is a 30 day free trial. We also have a bettertruckdrivingjobs.com.

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Mark Rhea: if you’d like to participate that and I’ll give you another opportunity at the end of our Webinar today, but just click a Yes, if you would like, the demo will get a hold of you. So with no further do

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Mark Rhea: I would like to go ahead. And you know this work, this issue of work zones

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Mark Rhea: is not limited to daytime or night time. It’s, it’s around the clock. It’s weekdays. It’s weekends. It’s an urban area. It’s rural areas. It causes delays.

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Mark Rhea: and it clearly upticks the concept of distracted driving that everybody is very aware of. So next week we have and work on awareness week. And, Keith, if you want to take over and

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Mark Rhea: tell us, walk us through

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Mark Rhea: next week’s events, the data behind work zones, and

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Mark Rhea: what we can do to help our drivers

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Mark Rhea: better get through these work zones.

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Keith Long: you bet. You bet. Thanks, Mark.

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Keith Long: So yep. Next week is national work, zone, awareness, week.

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Keith Long: and in general right. We say nothing in this world is said to be certain except for death and taxes. I would also submit

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Keith Long: and construction zones. It is that time of year. Again, road crews are out, cones are up, and at this point for 3.5 million

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Keith Long: us workers that make their living by driving a truck.

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Keith Long: This means an increase in risk. Factors on the roadway and changing scenarios that if you’re not ready for will be a surprise.

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Mark Rhea: Yeah, I just quickly. I forgot to mention. Also, we’ve got our chat feature up. If you don’t mind

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Mark Rhea: plug into chat. Tell us where you’re calling in from, and your name, we certainly would appreciate that.

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Keith Long: So

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Keith Long: numbers. Let’s talk about numbers right. I’m. I’m a numbers guy, and the most recent available data from the FMCSA here, as you can see, is from 2020

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Keith Long: and

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Keith Long: we’re looking at right around 857 total work, zone fatalities for the year of 20, 2,200 forty- of which

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Keith Long: involving a commercial motor vehicle right, and to put on top of this right. We’re looking at that 857, but we’re all talking about the additional injuries, right? Those that

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Keith Long: didn’t pass in a you know, a work zone accident, but we’re forever changed for the rest of their lives. Right? This is. This is why this is important: that a numbers like that should be a call to action for any carrier or any driver in the industry that

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Keith Long: you know makes their living this way, right? It’s. It’s an onus that we all share.

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Mark Rhea: So 244 commercial vehicle, fatalities, that’s almost a fatality per day.

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Keith Long: That is, it is commercial drug drivers. Absolutely.

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Keith Long: So. Some things to talk about

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Keith Long: is what we’re already teaching

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Keith Long: right in in general. It’s important that we take time to teach our drivers about these work zones, what to look for, what to be ready for, and what to expect this time of year.

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Keith Long: What we’re more than likely already teaching is to slow down and obey the signs and signals and construction zones. We know the workers may be present, the roads may narrow, and we should expect traffic congestion.

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Keith Long: but

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Keith Long: we should also talk about some other things right this this time. A year is when we start talking about construction. When we start talking about road work happening.

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Keith Long: and in the rest of the year

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Keith Long: we’re not spending enough time talking about it. So, if we spend.

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Keith Long: let’s say the other 9 months, right? Not talking about

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Keith Long: road construction. Then, when it happens again, we’re not ready. We’re not prepared. We’re not vigilant, and we’re not.

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Keith Long: I guess. Yeah. Prepared for what’s what? What? We’re coming up again. So, it’s important that this is a continuous conversation. It should be all year.

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Keith Long: So before driving things that a driver can do

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Keith Long: is research their route right check to see if road conditions have changed. Check to see if you’re going to be coming up against construction on your route. Whether that’s a pre-planned route or you’re putting that route together yourself.

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Keith Long: It’s best to avoid construction areas. If you can. And if you can’t exercise caution when going through them, and there are plenty of driver tools that are out there when planning our route

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Keith Long: that help us in that effort, right things like ways a good Rand McNally trucker, GPS: Google Maps. Even if you, if you get online, if you plan that route ahead of time.

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Keith Long: You can see where you’re going to come up against construction, and on top of that, you know, we should also be factoring in the time of day that we might be encountering that obviously construction it

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Keith Long: 4350’clock in the afternoon. It’s going to be much more of a delay and much more of a problem than it is. Let’s say it. 5 am. Or at you know, 110’clock in the afternoon. Right?

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Keith Long: Eliminate distractions, and this is one, mark you and I’ve talked about is that construction zones are for so many, and I don’t know why an opportunity to get that cell phone out and start engaging in distractions.

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Keith Long: It’s

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Keith Long: if it’s the speed limit that we slow down to right we’re all used to that 55. Now we’ve gone from 75 to 55 miles an hour. And it’s okay to get your cell phone out and start having those conversations catching up on emails, maybe.

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Keith Long: but it’s not the time for it, and for a driver it’s important that they recognize that these things are going on around them right. We would hope that our drivers aren’t the culprits of this. But from that vantage point from the spot that a driver sits in a truck.

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Keith Long: we should be recognizing the potential hazards around us, and specifically driver hazards. People who aren’t on the road every day.

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Keith Long: So, things like cell phones.

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Keith Long: food and drink distractions, right? We talk about food and drink distractions going down the road, eating a cheese, burger and jam and gears

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Keith Long: statistically 3.6 times more likely to be involved in an accident with a simple food and drink distraction.

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Mark Rhea: Yeah, just distractions

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Mark Rhea: compound the work zone, pro hazard

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Keith Long: correct, correct.

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Mark Rhea: And and what one other comment I know it’s, you say. Say, move over early

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Mark Rhea: a lot of times. You have a lot of changing lanes, and there’s an old lane marking, and there’s a new revised. It’s hard to determine where your line is correct.

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Keith Long: correct.

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Keith Long: and we’re certain to see right bad judgment in those places, so best thing to do. Right

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Keith Long: follow the signs and signals as you get into the construction zone a lot of these areas, we’re going to see that 2,500 or 2,000 feet before we enter the construction zone. Those

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Keith Long: warnings letting us know that things are changing in front of us for a commercial driver that may be driving the same route every day, or a similar route every week that maybe status quo. But when we’re talking about, you know, Johnny everyday driver.

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Keith Long: this may be a change that they weren’t ready for, and we should be expecting bad decisions in these areas. But

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Keith Long: another thing that we see all too often, and I’m sure we’ve all encountered it on our route is Zipper merging right, and

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Keith Long: Zipper Merging is not necessarily a bad thing. As a matter of fact, statistically Zipper merging works. If executed correctly. Right, we don’t get a single lane stack with that moving in moving out. It’s. It’s statistically supposed to work better

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Keith Long: However, what we do see is

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Keith Long: people straddling that

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Keith Long: center line to prevent others from zipper, merging, and all that does is create a hazard. All that does is create a a scenario for an accident and a scenario for road rage incidents.

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Mark Rhea: So our commercial driver should have the expectation that the

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Mark Rhea: driving public is prone to distraction specifically. and slowdowns at work zones

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Keith Long: absolutely, absolutely. There’s a better sense of comfort. As we slow down right, we feel more in control of our surroundings and ourself.

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Keith Long: and in this day and age, with cell phones and everybody’s pocket, it’s. It’s all too common for people to engage in distractions.

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Keith Long: So

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Keith Long: for us, right? What is? What is our role? Look like? What how do we? How do we change the narrative? Where do we come in? And how can we make a difference? Because that that number that 857 fatalities a year is something we should all be working towards

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Keith Long: changing something, we should all be working towards reducing and fun. Fact to that point is that number only goes up every year

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Keith Long: right? We look at 2019, 2019 was, I want to say, around 847, so that that jump now to 857, is it’s a small amount that any amount is bad, right?

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Keith Long: So, we get more proactive. We train early and train often.

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Keith Long: As I said, we don’t spend the rest of the year talking about construction, and we should.

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Keith Long: We should train around what to do in work zones, and it should be recurring as talks on any other road. Safety topic shouldn’t just be when we’re in that fifth season of the Year Road construction.

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Keith Long: We know it’s coming. So, let’s start talking about it before it happens.

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Keith Long: We’re not sure what to talk about or how to tailor that message. We can lean on industry experts right. There is plenty of information out there. Maybe you don’t have the time to put together resources or training, and these organizations that are out there, one that we’re going to talk about here specifically.

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Keith Long: They have what you need. Right? So

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Keith Long: let’s talk about

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Mark Rhea: just a quick comment on that, Keith. I I was involved in a lawsuit a couple of years ago, and the plans attorney made a very effective argument that the Safety Supervisor

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Mark Rhea: had knowledge and expertise in the hazard of a work zone, but failed to

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Mark Rhea: in exchange that information with his driver, and of course they took the driver’s deposition

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Mark Rhea: as the driver. Will you ever present any training or any awareness of work zone awareness? His answer was No. and it was

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Mark Rhea: very effective in in the court relative to the verdict. So, as an industry

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Mark Rhea: practitioner.

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Mark Rhea: you have the information that work zones are hazards, and it’s almost an or it is an obligation that you share that with your driving staffs

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Keith Long: absolutely. And if you’re not right, a work zone accent might as well be a properly wrapped gift right because it’s

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Mark Rhea: zero’s get added to the verdict. That’s absolutely it, and quick, especially in this day and age, you know, like we’ve talked about before, this is the age of nuclear verdicts.

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Keith Long: So National Work Zone Awareness week. I know we talk about next week, April seventeenth, through the 20 First is national works on Awareness week. We also are mentioning here the organization national Work Zone Awareness week.

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Keith Long: right? So, they started in 1997, with the Virginia Dot and then hosting their first national event in 2,020

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Keith Long: from there on over the past 2223 years, works on awareness week has grown, and is now an annual event that takes place across the United States, with partnerships between state departments at transportation.

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Keith Long: national road safety organizations, government agencies, private companies, and even individuals.

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Keith Long: can join in and help, and the overall goal, right is raising awareness around the risks of of work zones, and road construction, not only for people like us in the transportation industry.

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Keith Long: but as well as those that are

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Keith Long: in those work zones, right? So general awareness and safety. So the goal really here is to establish and promote those uniform safety tips and provide training that provides value and endless resources and national work. Zone Awareness week hits that on the head.

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Mark Rhea: so, it’s, it’s a comprehensive. It’s not. It’s not just commercial vehicles. It’s the it’s the workers on the side of the road with the shovels it’s the crane operators. It’s every it’s the enforcement industry. It’s all combined. Correct, correct, right. We can’t.

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Keith Long: We can’t tackle this problem by only singling out one person right, we are providing training to everybody and all of us taking the opportunity to admit that we have an onus and and reducing fatalities and injuries every year around work zones. That’s where change comes in, and that’s what

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Keith Long: national work on Awareness Week is about.

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Keith Long: So, you go to national work somewhere in this week.org their participate. Page has a list of this year’s events.

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Keith Long: and as you kind of scroll down the page here.

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Keith Long: it tells you what’s going on this year per day, right? What the themes are every year does have a theme. We’ll talk about these years in a moment. But if you get down to the Resources section. This is where partnership with different organizations has happened, and one will look at

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Keith Long: is

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Keith Long: the FMCSA’s work, zone, safety, and shareable material here

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Keith Long: right If you’re a fan of one-page learners and handouts here’s

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Keith Long: pre-built stuff that you can print out and put around your terminals put around for general awareness, you know, for your drivers send it email it right. Whatever your primary communication point is with those people.

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Keith Long: this information is here, and it’s there to help you right. Statistics to put, you know, binding facts to conviction. This is

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Keith Long: where that happens at.

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Mark Rhea: Wow! You’ve there’s a lot of National Safety Council. You got OSHA, you’ve got. I don’t know who we

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Mark Rhea: who mobile phone

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Keith Long: use. CDC, everybody’s involved in this, NIOSH in there, the highway administration. Yeah, absolutely. And that’s again where this comes in. Right. It’s that we all have an onus, and it is beneficial to every one of us

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Keith Long: to put an effort.

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Mark Rhea: Well, anything that creates 44 was a number 44,000 accidents overall that’s

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Mark Rhea: a cumulative per year. It’s incredible absolutely

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Mark Rhea: so. So, the nineteenth is go, orange day, or was that

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Mark Rhea: that is correct?

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Mark Rhea: Okay, Orange Day.

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Mark Rhea: Okay.

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Keith Long: So go to Orange day. Right? That’s where we’re all whether that’s, you know, putting on our safety vest or orange shirt. I don’t recommend orange tops and bottoms that can be confusing, but

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Mark Rhea: you know where orange participate. It’s about awareness. So it’d be good opportunity to walk around the office with an orange vest on. People. Ask what you got that on for, and I’m glad you asked

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Mark Rhea: Absolutely. It also might not be a bad idea to take a photo to put in your file, so that if you must take that nasty deposition that says you never did anything you could say. Well, photo evidence right there. Huh? Not quite so

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Mark Rhea: social media storm. That’s just getting it out there on, in on the social media. And then the moment of silence is for all the fatalities, and people have been injured

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Keith Long: in the work zone. So that’s a that’s a fantastic line up for next week

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Keith Long: Nw. Dot

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Keith Long: or so. There’s this participates page. There’s a resources page.

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Keith Long: but I highly recommend it right. This is by no means a paid promotion for anybody. This is a just as a as general safety general awareness. It’s an opportunity that we all have, and that we should all take advantage of

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Keith Long: every year every year. They have a theme right, I, you know, like we’ve probably all probably all remember the speed kill’s theme. That was, I. I think that was 2018. But this year I really enjoyed it. This is

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Keith Long: you play a role in work, zone, safety work with

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Keith Long: us.

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Keith Long: and if I’m being honest, you know, looking over there their past 20 years of

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Keith Long: of themes. This one’s my favorite, because it really does bring to the table that important role that we all play in reducing works on fatalities, be it road workers or vehicle operations or law enforcement, right. All of us have

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Keith Long: an opportunity to engage and reduce fatalities and injuries, so

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Keith Long: work with them. If I’m saying it.

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Mark Rhea: Yeah, and work with us, it goes 2 ways. We us could be, You know, the guys with the shovels on the side of the road, but us is also the commercial trucks

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Mark Rhea: driving through and

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Mark Rhea: and lighting at night. I mean, I’ve seen some crazy things from some dash cams that are just unbelievable. That so?

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Mark Rhea: That’s a great work with us is a pretty comprehensive statement.

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Keith Long: Correct, correct. And

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Keith Long: you know you’re talking about those crazy things through construction zones. I don’t know if I mentioned it there, but 37% of these work zone accidents and injuries are a result of

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Keith Long: speeding and in construction zones 37%, right? So

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Keith Long: we reduce speeding and construction zones. We’ve

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Keith Long: cut a significant portion out of that out of that annual number

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Keith Long: got picked up a violation for speeding in a construction zone. Those are CSA points that any driver and any company does not want to keep around right. You don’t. You don’t want to get hit for those.

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Keith Long: But again in in general here there’s a lot that we can do so.

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Keith Long: And one thing we’re not going to be able to do is stop construction. It’s not going to stop any time soon. That’s correct. And for some places, especially anybody that lives, you know, in the in the southern half of the States, where it’s warm enough all year to have construction

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Keith Long: it it it absolutely does happen, you know. A couple of places come to mind. We were just talking about this earlier right little rock now. Tex or Canada, Texas. I don’t know if they’ll if they’ll ever stop. But plenty of places around the States that construction is a constant and theme

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Mark Rhea: for everybody. Yeah. 1 one thing I’ve learned when you say, well, we’ve got some bad construction problems. And Waco, Texas, somebody from California goes. Oh, we got twice that big a problem out in San Bernardino, where everybody has the worst road construction problems, they say so is there’s just nationwide

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Mark Rhea: reality, and bringing awareness is, is a is a very worthwhile investment of time and effort.

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Keith Long: Right?

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Keith Long: Right? Absolutely. And there’s plenty of things that you can be teaching about here right speed and space management communicating and signaling and intentions right using those lights and signals to communicate where you’re going to be signaling early, getting in your right of way, Lane.

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Keith Long: Everything that that we should be teaching on that in general are basic safety principles

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Keith Long: that add more value than just

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Keith Long: road construction season. Right? These topics

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Keith Long: go on and throughout the year, and bleed into everything else that we do.

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Mark Rhea: So, Keith, how do I get this out to my driving staff. You sold me. Now what do I do?

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Keith Long: Well, so one we’ve got works on Awareness week. Go to the website, go to participate. There’s content there.

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Keith Long: you know, if you’re using. If you’re using Infinit-I, and you’ve, you’ve got training that you want to put in front of your drivers do so. I at work around Media. Right here the transportation nerd at work around media. We design training content for the training industry for safety sensitive industries. So

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Keith Long: we put together a training video this year, and anybody who wants to can reach out to [email protected] hit us up on the contact page, and we’ve got a video ready for this year that we can get you aligned with, and you can add that into Infinit-I and assign it to your drivers.

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Keith Long: You can send that out to them via Link. That’s up to you. But resources are there. We want to help, because at the end of the day it is important to all of us.

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Mark Rhea: So, workaround media.com the transportation, nerd you. You’ve got some content

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Mark Rhea: that you could help or help design and or develop content that could be assigned to the drivers

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Keith Long: this afternoon or tomorrow. Correct, correct absolutely. We’ve got subject matter experts, and we have. We have the resources; we have the training in the background.

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Keith Long: and again it comes down to

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Keith Long: a background in the industry growing up in the industry and having a passion for that right, because we all deserve to get home at the end of the day.

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Mark Rhea: And however, we can. Further, that that’s what we’re here for.

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Mark Rhea: The hazards at work zones, and what they can do, and what they have seen and done. So it’s a really good topic.

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Keith Long: Correct.

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Mark Rhea: Okay, did. Did you have an example of

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Mark Rhea: some content or just you just want to get your name out there.

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Keith Long: Okay? Well, we do have a training video that we put together. I mean, if we got time on this, that that you want to do that, I can.

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Mark Rhea: Yeah, let’s get you. If you don’t mind, let’s go and do that. And

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Mark Rhea: and I want to make sure we offer the free trial again here in a few minutes and get some feedback. But if you’ve got that queued up.

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Mark Rhea: while we’re waiting, if anybody’s got any questions or comments. Please feel free to

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Mark Rhea: chime in on Chat or the Q. A.

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Keith Long: All right. Let’s see here

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Keith Long: that all right and see. See my screen there.

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Mark Rhea: Yeah, take your time and save lives

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Keith Long: all right, so we’ll kick it off hopefully. That that audio works here. Give me a big thumbs down if it if it doesn’t, but

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Mark Rhea: your livelihood is transportation.

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Day in. day out you’re on the move navigating roadways to make sure we all have what we need to live. However. this time of year, those road bullies may look a little different.

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and they may change from week to week. As a matter of fact, they may even change right in front of you. That’s right. It’s construction season. The cones are up. The workers are out and change.

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Did you know that on average there are 850 work zone traffic fatalities a year. That’s 850 people that didn’t get to go home. and that number only keeps going up.

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And these accidents speeding is a major contributing factor. 37% of the time.

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You know the dangers you’re out there. and you can make a difference. You don’t have to be a statistic.

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So this year this roadwork season Let’s pump the brakes slow down. Look farther ahead and signal earlier. Remember, while driving, maybe status quo for you.

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Mark Rhea: Wow! That’s very well done, Keith.

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Keith Long: Thank you. Thank you. It’s like I said it’s what we like doing, and it’s where a passion is.

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Mark Rhea: Do you got your contact again?

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Keith Long: Yup, Yup! That I do

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Keith Long: pop that back up here.

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Keith Long: Transportation nerd, that’s us, and you can get us [email protected] and get a hold of us there.

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Keith Long: Like I said, this is: we’ve got a special that we put together with this video this year for Work Zone Awareness Week.

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Keith Long: but we also do custom content, and we’d be happy to work with

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Keith Long: either. Your subject matter. Experts will bring ours, and we’ll even be on camera so.

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Keith Long: and let us know how we can help.

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Mark Rhea: And obviously the platform we want to

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Mark Rhea: Mmm. Make sure is available is the Infinit-I Workforce Learning System. That is correct. Absolutely the best out there on the market. And

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Mark Rhea: if one more time, if you would like a yeah, the free demo, Keith, thank you very much for all that information.

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Mark Rhea: sharing that content custom, content that you developed telling us about national Work Zone Awareness week, how big an issue it is.

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Mark Rhea: over 850 was a 157 fatalities per year.

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Mark Rhea: I’m going to get my orange best out on Wednesday and get getting to get out there and do a little promotion work myself.

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Mark Rhea: It’s a huge issue, and it’s something that you, as a transportation, professional need to

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Mark Rhea: relay to your driving staff. And this is obviously a way to do that.

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Mark Rhea: Like, I said, I’ve been involved in multiple lawsuits, I can tell you. from a plan’s point of view.

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Mark Rhea: commercial truck involving wreck in a work zone. It’s always going to be the commercial truck’s fault because they’re big, and we got to be able to protect ourselves from those nuclear verdict. So, if you’d like to sign up for the free demo.

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Mark Rhea: just click a Yes, right there. We also have the better driving jobs.com simply check. Yes, and we will get back in touch with you there.

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Mark Rhea: Keith, if there are Zoom One, have any other questions, or are we good to move on? I think we’re we’ll be discussing road check coming up in May to right around the corner. The emphasis this year will be cargo, securement, and Abs. Why, if I’m not mistaken, correct.

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Mark Rhea: and it not too early to start preparing for that. So, I want to thank everybody again. Thank you again, Mr. Keith. Long [email protected]

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Mark Rhea: gmail.com. That’s the guy

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Mark Rhea: we will see you next month, as we begin to prepare for CVSA Road check.

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Mark Rhea: Yes, sir, thank you very much, and I got my

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Mark Rhea: orange best. I’ll have that on Wednesday. I’m not where it all week. You got me convinced it’s that big an issue.

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Mark Rhea: We’ll see you there. Okay, Thank you, sir.