State Patrol Teams Up With Semi Drivers To Curb Poor Driving Behavior

The Wisconsin State Patrol partnered with Wisconsin Motor Carriers Association drivers yesterday on Highway 26 in the southern part of Fond du Lac County as part of Operation Safe Driver Week, a nationwide awareness and enforcement movement aimed at improving driving behaviors.

Troopers riding along with semi drivers as well as marked cruisers and an air unit worked the area of 26 between 151 and County Highway TC.

Their goal is to reduce the number of crashes and injuries on the road, the Department of Transportation stated. In the past five years, Wisconsin has averaged nearly 7,000 large truck crashes every year. In 2022, 73 people died in those accidents.

Today the enforcement heads to Trempealeau County and Wednesday they will be in Columbia County.