LISBON — For Daphne Izer, Wednesday marks a painful anniversary. “We relive everything,” Izer said. “It never gets easier.” Twenty-five years ago, Izer’s son, Jeff, 17, and four of his friends pulled into a breakdown lane on the Maine Turnpike after their car started to overheat. They were on their way to a haunted hayride […]
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Good year for truck-safety laws
As this year comes to end, I look forward to the future wherein roads and bridges are safer than they would have been, if not for the dedication and hard work of the Truck Safety Coalition’s (which PATT is a part of) vast network of volunteers. Equipped with facts and driven by the desire to […]
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B. Gray: Rules for truckers needed revising
In a Sun Journal story (Dec. 11), Daphne Izer, a truck safety advocate, criticized Sen. Susan Collins for adding an amendment to the federal spending bill that would change sleep-time rules for the nation’s truck drivers. My heart goes out to Izer, who lost her son in 1993 when a big rig hit his car. […]
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Face Time: Daphne Izer — Tireless advocate, national ‘champion’
Daphne Izer received two national honors in Washington, D.C. this summer for her work advocating to keep the country’s highways safe, inspired by the tragic loss of her son. The Lisbon woman founded Parents Against Tired Truckers after Jeff and three of his friends were killed on the Maine Turnpike in October 1993; a fifth […]
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K. Kelley: Misrepresenting the facts
In response to Daphne Izer’s letter, “Keep Highways Safe” (July 7), there have been many great improvements in truck safety during the past decade. Sen. Susan Collins supports those improvements and is working to ensure our roads and highways become safer. Last year, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration implemented new rules affecting truck drivers. […]
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D. Izer: Keep the highways safe
The issue of truck driver fatigue gained media attention recently after the tragic truck crash that killed one man and critically injured several others, including actor Tracy Morgan. Twenty years ago, we founded Parents Against Tired Truckers after a driver fell asleep at the wheel of his rig, killing four teenagers, including our son, Jeff, […]