Defensive Driving Course
The National Safety Council's Defensive Driving Course for Professional Truck Drivers - DDC-PTD
 
 
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This program was developed and certified by the National Safety Council to teach and encourage defensive driving strategies to professional truck drivers.

This free, four-hour session is scheduled and conducted at your office to provide you flexibility in meeting your safety needs.

Each session builds on knowledge learned in a previous session and includes opportunities to practice and apply the information presented in the session. In addition the course can include a short pre- and post-test. All relevant CDL information used in these sessions relies on the U.S. Department of Transportation as the source.

 

This course addresses the following core defensive driving concepts:

Defensive driving
Preventable collisions
Personal responsibility and driving to protect others
Hazard recognition

Three factors contributing to collisions:

Driver
Vehicle
Conditions

The driving environment:

Driver conditions
vehicle conditions
Light conditions
Weather conditions
Road conditions
Traffic conditions
Other drivers

Choosing safe and legal behaviors.