Driver Training: Emergency Driving Maneuvers

This course teaches your driver how to handle emergency driving maneuvers including; when and how to make emergency driving manseuvers. The unit concludes with a range lesson during which you will practice three emergency maneuvers. Half of truck driver deaths are caused by rollovers. Cargo piled high increases the center of gravity. Fully loaded trucks are 10 times more likely to roll over. To help prevent a rollover: Keep cargo close to the ground and center the load. Rollovers happen when you turn too fast. Drive slow: around corners and on on- and off-ramps. Avoid quick lane changes.

What Will Your Driver Learn in This Unit?

How to bring your truck to a stop in the shortest possible distance on a dry surface while controlling your direction.
Make a quick evasive turn on a dry surface.
Make an evasive turn off of the roadway and back onto it while controlling your direction.
Stop your vehicle if your brakes fail.
Keep control of your vehicle if a tire blows out.

Your driver will learn:

Why it is easier to turn your vehicle than to stop it?
Why it is generally safer to leave the roadway rather than risk striking another vehicle head on?
The critical importance of seatbelts in driver safety and vehicle control.

Student Aids:

To help you learn the material in this unit, there follows an Emergency Maneuver Checklist covering:
Evasive Steering
Emergency Steering
Off-road Recovery
Brake Failure
Front Tire Blowouts
Download the Emergency Maneuvers Checklist (opens new window)

Emergency Maneuvers

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Brake Failure

1. Downshift

2. Apply the parking brake to help in down shifting

Keep a hand on the parking brake

Release it if the vehicle begins to skid or veer

3. Find an escape path

Begin looking immediately

Use the best path available. Don't wait to see if the vehicle can be stopped. There may be no good path available.

4. Create drag

5. Repeat downs hifting until the vehicle is moving slowly enough to stop with the parking brake

6. Inspect the brakes before continuing

Front Tire Blowouts

1. Grasp wheel tightly

2. Avoid braking hard

3. Allow the vehicle to slow gradually

4. Brake gentry to a stop

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