The highway can be a dangerous place, especially with cars, buses, and trucks going up 75 MPH, you can never be too safe. Fortunately, there is a way to increase overall safety in the occurrence of a roadway or workplace accident. How is that? By using crash trucks, which are on-highway vehicles equipped with a truck-mounted impact attenuator and commonly used for crash truck construction safety in active road work zones. A construction crash truck helps protect motorists and construction workers in work zones by acting as a protective cushion designed to absorb high-energy kinetic impact. Then how do crash trucks make your workplace safer?
What is a crash truck?
Well, let’s start with the crash truck definition and the role of impact attenuators. A crash truck acts as an impact attenuator vehicle, using a crash pad designed to reduce damage to vehicles, motorists, and structures during a collision. They do this because they’re designed to absorb the kinetic energy of the colliding vehicle or vehicles. Simply put, they cushion the blow. In construction, a crash truck helps create a protective buffer between moving traffic and an active work zone.
Why rent a crash truck?
The best way to be safe is not to get into a collision at all, but you always have to be prepared. Impact attenuators, attenuator trucks and truck-mounted attenuators are the best ways for you to be prepared because they improve highway construction safety and make your workplace safer in the process. A safer work environment is important and both the workers and drivers passing by deserves that safety.
Safety is always a priority. A crash cushion truck equipped with a truck-mounted attenuator helps absorb or redirect collision forces away from workers and the active work area. Crash trucks are also equipped with arrow signs and strobe lights to increase visibility. This makes a traffic control crash truck especially useful for helping alert approaching drivers around active highway work zones.
Where do they fit on a worksite?
The answer to this question is pretty simple. Crash trucks should be positioned in front of fixed and temporary structures at road construction projects on highways, diversion intersections, crash barriers, and overpass supports. A crash barrier truck with a truck-mounted attenuator is designed to absorb vehicle impact before it reaches workers or the active work zone. State work zone regulations often specify a minimum buffer barrier between the attenuator truck and the work area, and a minimum mass for the truck mounted attenuator truck, to minimize the chances that it will be pushed forward by a crash into the workers or machinery.
We’re here to help
Crash trucks are specialized safety trucks built to help absorb the impact of a collision and provide an additional protective buffer around highway construction work zones. Both are designed to absorb this impact, but specific jobs have specific needs. For your crash truck needs, call 877-740-RENT (7368) today to book your rental equipment directly through Partner Rentals.
