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Driving Safety Education

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UC San Diego's Transportation Research and Education for Driving Safety (TREDS) Center is committed to preventing crash-related morbidity and mortality by improving safe driving behaviors. TREDS offers two courses that aim to prevent commercial motor vehicle-involved crashes resulting from distracted and substance-impaired driving, and partners with California Trucking Association to make courses available to the commercial motor vehicle industry.

Train-the-Trainer programs are available for safety professionals, as well as online learning for drivers. Courses are approximately 60-minutes in length and available in both English and Spanish.

Courses focuses on distraction related to the use of cell phones and electronic devices:

  • Scope of the problem
  • Risk and consequences
  • Rules and regulations
  • Strategies to prevent distracted driving
  • Fatigue and drowsy driving
  • Work zone safety
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Courses focuses on substances most commonly reported to the FMCSA Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse:

  • Scope of the problem
  • Contributing factors
  • Risks and consequences
  • Laws and testing procedures
  • Strategies to drive-drug free
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