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Written by Mike Thomas, USAIG

Don’t Play the Odds

Jun 1, 2016
Fatigue Partnership

Whether you fly single-pilot for pleasure or as part of a larger, multiple aircraft department, don’t play the odds. Be proactive in mitigating the risks that impact your flight every day and use the tools that are available to you.

Asleep at the wheel? Greyhound fails to enforce its own safety rule

May 24, 2016
Fatigue

At 1:33 a.m. on October 9, 2013, a Greyhound bus headed to Cleveland from New York slammed into the back of a tractor-trailer on I-80 in Pennsylvania.

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A tractor-trailer cargo releases millions of honeybees on Interstate 80 after driver allegedly falls asleep

May 19, 2016
Fatigue

A truck driver allegedly fell asleep while driving on I-80, eastbound less than 30 miles west of Laramie. His truck veered off the road, the truck landed on its passenger side, releasing millions of bees from their hives. The driver and many volunteers from Albany and Carbon counties worked late into the eventing trying to clean up the wreck and recover as many bees as possible.