Share the Road Safely in Baltimore

              Professional Truck Drivers Offer Safe Driving
                       Tips for Memorial Day Travel

Over 189,000 vehicles travel I-95 through Baltimore each day. With so many vehicles on the highways, and the Memorial Day weekend coming up, it's more important than ever that motorists learn to share the road safely with large trucks and other commercial vehicles.

In a highway scenario, professional truck drivers will demonstrate how to drive safely around tractor-trailers on local highways and provide a truck ride-along for reporters and photographers because:

  * 75% of all truck-related car fatalities are initiated by car drivers
  * 35% of all truck-related car fatalities occur in a truck's blind spots
  * Watching this demonstration will help reduce accidents

Most drivers were never taught how to share the road safely with trucks, nor do they understand that there are large blind spots around trucks where cars become "invisible." That's why on May 15th, professional truck drivers, David Bowers -- with 30 years of experience and over 1.4 million accident-free miles, and Tony Cesenaro -- with 30 years of experience and over 1 million accident-free miles, will give a safety demonstration and truck ride-along to teach motorists how to stay safe on our nation's highways.

To demonstrate a tractor-trailer's blind spots, cars and trucks will be placed in the front, rear and sides of the trucks -- and will "disappear" from the truck driver's view.

Currently a partnership between the ATA and Mack Trucks, Inc., the Share the Road program educates millions of motorists annually. For more information please see: www.atasharetheroad.com

  Rides will be available for the media immediately following the news
  conference.

  WHEN:      Thursday, May 15th, 10:00 AM

  WHERE:     United Parcel Service, 3901 Vero Road, Baltimore, MD
             Directions:  From I-95 South take the Caton Avenue exit.  Take
              a right onto Joh Avenue at the first light.  The UPS terminal
              is on the left at the corner of Joh Avenue and Vero Road.

  WHO:       David Bowers, ATA's 2001 America's Road Team Captain, Yellow
              Transportation, Inc., Clarksburg, W. Va.

             Tony Cesenaro, 2001 Maryland Driver of the Year,
              OverniteTransportation, Baltimore, MD

             Cpl. Glen Saltsman, Maryland State Police, Linthicum Heights,
              MD

             Luis Campion, Vice President - Administration, Maryland Motor
              Truck Association, Baltimore, MD

             Ellen Serrano, American Trucking Associations, Alexandria, VA