Truck Safety

What is a Truck Side Guard?

Side Guards are designed to prevent people from going underneath the rear wheels of large city vehicles. In the event of a side-collision accident between a pedestrian, cyclist, or motorcyclist and a large city vehicle, the impacted individual is not dragged underneath the vehicle, avoiding all contact with the wheel base and rear wheels of the affected truck or tractor-trailer.

TaklerUSA side guards are underride protection safety devices. Panels are installed on each side of a large city vehicle, such as a sanitation or delivery truck. Their application mitigates the impact of side underride collision related injuries and fatalities.

Side Guard under ride protection is proven to be an effective vehicle-based safety device.

Truck side guards make our city streets safer.

NYC LOCAL LAW 56 mandates the use of truck side guards on trucks operated in NYC by January 1 2024, a Civil Penalty for non-compliance with local law 56 is $10,000 per incident. An additional penalty may by imposed of up to $500 per day for each day after 30 days that the violation is not corrected.

What Are the Benefits of Installing Side Guards on Trucks?

Prevents fatalities in motor vehicle traffic crashes
Easy to install and compatible with most public trucks, such as garbage trucks and dump trailers
Reduces the risks of accidents such as the passage of a limb, head or body under the truck
Made of composite materials, the device does not rust and is easy to clean
Absorbs the impact to rebound outside of the vehicle
Removable panel for ease of access
Provides additional protection to exposed users of the road
Reduces fuel consumption
Meets the Stress Tests of European standards
Designed with a standard topology and a multi-objective optimization approach.
Surpasses all test standards for side guard devices

Certification

Takler USA side guard protection systems comply with VOLPE's regulations in addition to requirements in countries across the world including Germany and Italy. TaklerUSA has been granted compliance with ISO 9001:2008. The TaklerUSA sideguard system is designed to promote Vision Zero, the ethical principle that states it is never acceptable for anyone to be killed or seriously injured when moving within the road transport system.

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