Tell me, is there Front Underride Protection on that new Volvo (like they have on Volvo in Australia)? If so, then you have me impressed. https://t.co/CS89gceMgf #FUPsaveslives @durso_lois @TransportDems @Transport @SenateCommerce #STOPunderrides
— Marianne Karth (@MaryandAnnaLeah) November 26, 2018
Volvo U.S. Patent Application for Front Underrun Protection, 2001
Previous Front Underride Posts
A Road to Zero Coalition quarterly meeting was held on March 20, 2018, at the National Transportation Safety Board Conference Center in Washington, DC. The topic was Commercial Vehicles, from Safe Systems to Technology Innovations. (View the March 20 meeting agenda.)
The speakers and panelists at the Road to Zero Coalition spent the morning talking about Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety. Not one word was mentioned about underride until the end of the panel when the Safety VP of Schneider Trucking, Tom DeSalvio, mentioned that they are looking at using the improved rear bumper (on new trailers). I think that they have something like 56,000 trucks in their fleet. I could be wrong.
I asked Skip Yeagel, Volvo Trucks, about when would Volvo put Front Underride Protection (FUP) on their trucks [in the United States] or does he think that it would take a federal mandate for them to do so. He said that he couldn’t really say but he figured that it would probably take a mandate.
Front Underrun Protection (FUP) on Volvo Trucks in Australia
Capitol Hill Underride Briefing, October 2017: Front Underride Protection Presentation Keith Friedman
