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reform underride guard requirements for heavy trailers and mandate the retrofitting of existing fleets.

Created by J.D. on March 14, 2013

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has shown that American semi-trucks do not have adequately designed underride guards, which took the lives of 260 people in 2011. Require properly designed guards to be implemented on both new and old trucks to help prevent these unnecessary deaths in the future.

Read the article below for more information, including a video detailing the problem:

http://www.iihs.org/news/rss/pr031413.html

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