Vehicle-Awareness, Safety Systems Making Life Safer for Waste Haulers

摘要

Perry Mitrano, director of solid waste with the city of Bunnell, FL, would have backed into a man who was crouched behind the rear wheel of his truck if his radar system hadn't sounded its in-cab alarm. That's because Mitrano, who was filling in for an absent driver that day, would never have seen the man, even with the cameras with which his truck is equipped. The man could easily have been killed by Mitrano's truck. The resulting bad press and the inevitable lawsuit quite possibly would have shut down the city's fairly young waste collection system.