Abstract
Safety is the first priority during the process of transportation as an accident occurs will cause a person’s life or long-term injury. This study identifies the awareness of road safety for trucks transportation in Peninsular Malaysia that highlight the factor of causing drivers not aware about the road safety for trucks transportation in Peninsular Malaysia which include driver behaviour, attitude and human error, surrounding environment, government legislative and distracted driving. Qualitative research approach is adopted in this study and in-depth interview was conducted to gather the data among the selected trucks operations company in Peninsular Malaysia. The finding show that speed performance results the safety procedure, the company greediness for small gains or profits results the awareness of safety their employees, the government’s legislation punishment is not very effective and also the employees lack of understanding on safety precaution results in their own risk. Therefore, Driver Behaviour, Attitude and Human Error, surrounding Environment, Government Legislative as well as Distracted Driving and Tracking are the important factor that cannot be neglected.
Highlights
Transportation is means by of moving of goods and passengers from one location to another location which have include land, air, maritime, pipeline and space transport
In Malaysia, according to the statistics by the Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research, more than 80% of traffic accidents are caused by human error rather than faulty vehicle or road conditions
Road users have to take responsible for their own safety during driving [2]
Summary
Transportation is means by of moving of goods and passengers from one location to another location which have include land, air, maritime, pipeline and space transport. The accidents occur all too frequently especially for vehicles that carry heavy goods such as lorries with trailers drivers are having an irresponsible behaviour, not respecting of the loading regulations and the highway code as well as the obligation for drivers to adapt their speed which affects stopping distances to the traffic and weather conditions [1]. A truck must travel under the control speed because trucks vehicles need a longer stopping distance and other road users may misjudge the speed. This could causes the trucks to overturn more likely to lose control of the vehicles on a curve or cornering [3]
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