MINNESOTA TRUCKING ASSOCIATION
Minnesota's Highway Watch Program
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Highway Watch® is the roadway sector's national safety and security program that utilizes the skills, experiences, and "road smarts" of America's transportation workers to help protect the nation's critical infrastructure and the transportation of goods, services, and people.
Highway Watch® participants - transportation infrastructure construction, maintenance and operations personnel workers, commercial and public truck and bus driverstruck drivers, transit personnel, bus drivers, and other highway sector professionals - are specially trained to recognize potential safety and security threats and avoid becoming a target of terrorists. The Highway Watch® effort seeks to prevent terrorists from using large vehicles or hazardous cargoes as weapons.
Highway Watch® training provides Highway Watch® participants with the observational tools and the opportunity to exercise their expert understanding of the transportation environment to report safety and security concerns rapidly and accurately to the authorities. In addition to matters of homeland security - stranded vehicles or accidents, unsafe road conditions, and other safety related situations are reported eliciting the appropriate emergency responders. Highway Watch® reports are combined with other information sources and shared both with federal agencies and the roadway transportation sector by the Highway ISAC.
Highway Watch® is administered in Minnesota by the Minnesota Trucking Association. It is funded by the American Trucking Associations (ATA) under a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). All interested roadway transportation sector professionals are welcome to join Highway Watch®.
For more information contact the Minnesota Trucking Association at (651) 646-7351 or by e-mail at mta@mntruck.org.
Get Trained
With the recent changes in the program to include reporting of criminal activity and truck related accidents, it will be even more effective in serving the trucking industry. Like any MTA program it only gets better when members get involved. Get on board! See below for ways to get your drivers trained.
For Individuals
Getting trained as a Highway Watch® member is completely free and there are
many ways complete your training. Highway Watch training is available through
traditional classroom sessions as well as self-learning modules, available in
DVD, VHS, audio CD, or cassette tape formats.
For Organizational Leaders and Training Managers
Highway Watch® is seeking companies and organizations interested in training
blocks of employees and/or organizational members as Highway Watch®. Please
contact the MTA at (651) 646-7351, to
discuss how to join the growing list of Minnesota companies and organizations
that have committed to training 100% of their workforce and/or members.