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44,000+ STOP Underrides! Petition Signatures Posted on the Federal Register

If you signed the STOP Underrides! Petition, your name is now on the Federal Register, along with 45,000 other Americans — letting the Department of Transportation know that we want them to mandate underride protection on all trucks.
 
See our petition signatures posted here: https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=NHTSA-2015-0118-0058
Our petition asks for a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking:

See recent Public Comments to NHTSA. You, too, can speak up to end preventable truck underride.

You, too, can let NHTSA know what you want them to do about the problem of preventable truck side underride. In addition to signing the Side Guard Petition which we have launched online, you can also post a comment directly to NHTSA on the Federal Register.

Although the official Public Comment period is closed, comments will still be posted and taken into consideration by NHTSA, as they have not yet put together a Final Rule on truck underride protection.

I have received notifications the last few days regarding new postings to the Federal Register of Public Comments from people asking DOT/NHTSA to mandate side guards! I am assuming that this is in response to my request for people to do so to help bring about change. 🙂 See the recent Public Comments here:

You can do it, too! SUBMIT a Public Comment to DOT/NHTSA here: https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=NHTSA-2015-0118 After you get to this site, click on the COMMENT NOW button.

Don’t forget to sign the Side Guard PETITION

Harvard School of Public Health posts comments in support of improved truck underride protection

Latest post in The Federal Register for Public Comments on the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rule Making for underride protection on Single Unit Trucks (SUTS) includes comments on suggestions for side guards to protect cyclists:

http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=NHTSA-2015-0070-0010

http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;dct=FR+PR+N+O+SR;rpp=10;po=0;D=NHTSA-2015-0070