Article: Truck-auto safety program using decals on traveling trailer truck.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

WASHINGTON _ The Federal Highway Administration on Tuesday unveils its latest effort at decreasing car and semitruck crashes: a 48-foot trailer truck designed to show drivers the ``No Zones,'' or blind spots, for truck drivers.

The brightly colored truck will warn motorists behind it with the message: ``Don't Hang Out In The No Zone.'' On its sides will be an aerial view of a truck on a highway with shaded areas showing that truck's blind spots. Those spots mean the motorists around the truck can't be seen by its driver.

But when the truck heads for its first destination _ Syracuse, N.Y. _ on Oct. 1, the distinguishing marks of the truck and the safety ...

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