NTSB side safety rails for semis??

[Rule3]

Seems that the Safety board is pushing for side rails for semi trailers so a car can not crash under it from the side.

The rear safety bars have been around for a while known as Mansfield bars as that is how she died.

Anyway the board says 200 people a year are killed going under a tractor trailer.

Now I am all in favor of making vehicles safer but aren't there causes of death that exceed 200 that they should be concerned about? I guess they feel back up cameras are a good thing?

What I want to know is what has happened to bumper height laws on regular pickups (or cars)??

There are so many of the Bubba Boy jacked up trucks with trailer hitches around here that if you hit the rear you are gonna get cut in half. I mean the trucks you need a ladder to get into not a modest lift kit.

If my regular car hits one of the really jacked up ones I am dead.

Guess one like this is street legal?

 

[Whitwabit]

A bunch in Illinois set their trucks up like that .. until the law came round

You can only modify the stock bumper height 3 inches or less .. bunch of guys lost a lot of money when they went to 4 to 10 inch lifts .. they were not street legal .. most ended up taking all the parts off and some had even gotten rid of their stock parts so many had to buy another stock suspension set up ..

You don't see anything on the street now that looks like that ..

 

[Model 19 6"]

What gets me is when one of these trucks is parked in a handicap space.

 

[DeadAye]

A Mustang with 2 guys in it passed me going FAST.
How they didn't see the semi is beyond me...
Turned the Mustang and driver into convertibles - the passenger was dead too.
They were about 50 yards ahead of me when they went under the trailer.
The semi driver wasn't injured.

 

[bigwheelzip]

Seems that the Safety board is pushing for side rails for semi trailers so a car can not crash under it from the side.

Since so many trailers are installing Aero kits under their sides, they might make those kits do double duty.

 

[muddocktor]

Since so many trailers are installing Aero kits under their sides, they might make those kits do double duty.

Yeah, I know what you mean now that I'm commuting 750 miles every 2 weeks. There are a whole bunch of semis that have those under trailer aero kits on them nowadays and they look like they could easily be modified to do this too.

 

[Kanewpadle]

I guess the side rails might be a good thing. As for the truck in the picture......To each their own. But what a colossal waste of money.

Reminds me of the BIG wheels and tires people put on their cars. "Hey look at me. I'm somebody because I spent $8000 on new wheels and tires".

 

[hostler]

What gets me is when one of these trucks is parked in a handicap space.

Probably a mental handicap.