Defensive Driving for CMV Drivers: Manage Speed & Space

This course is designed to help drivers understand how speed and space management can impact their ability to react to hazards and stop when needed.

Course Overview

Drivers need to understand how speed and space management can impact their ability to react to hazards or to stop when needed. As a driver, having a proper space cushion around your vehicle is vital to properly managing your speed and space. As you will see in this course, a driver, ability to stop is impacted by a number of factors, including perception distance, reaction distance, braking distance, weather, traffic, and construction. In this course, we will expand on these and more factors and provide drivers with information to help them manage their speed and space while on the road.

Course Topics

  • What Is Speed and Space Management?
  • Poor Speed and Space Management
  • Stopping Distance
    • Stopping Distance
    • Perception Distance
    • Reaction Distance
    • Braking Distance
    • How to Calculate
  • Space Cushion
    • Principles
    • Ahead
    • Behind
    • Sides
    • Above and Below