Highway Watch By Carmen Daecher

Program Overview

Highway Watch is the roadway sector's national safety and security program that utilized that skill, experience, 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 workers, commercial and public truck and bus drivers, and other highway sector professional - 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 understand 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 emergence 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.

The Highway Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) is operated by the American Trucking Associations (ATA), in partnership with the state and national trucking associations and conferences of the ATA Federation, numerous other national highway transportation organizations in the Highway Watch Coalition in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security, for the benefit of the entire Highway Transportation Sector.

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