BDS® has consent with Truck Manufacturers

In 2oo1 when Holland and Belgium legally obliged the use of Anti- Blind Spot Mirrors on trucks the BDS® Dead angle mirror system received letters of consent and no objection to install a BDS® Mirror on below mentioned Truck Brands /Types. These documents are based on the TNO report 01.OR.NT.0101.1/JvdH for the field of vision. The Dutch and Belgium governement listed the BDS® as a product valid for governement subsidy.

- MAN Truck & Bus BV
- Volvo Truck en Bus Nederland BV
- DaimlerCrysler Nederland BV
- IVECO Nederland BV
- Renault Trucks Impert Nederland BV
- Scania Trucks BV
- DAF Trucks NV

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SCANIA approves BDS®Blind Spot Mirror

Information :

Scania has officially approved the BDS® Dead angle mirror for the retrofit market of Scania Trucks in Europe .

Scania Partnumber is 1778382 and can be ordered at Scania Parts Europe .

Reason for Scania to chose for the BDS® option is the fact of just one partnumber for all the Scania truck models.
Investment as for material and installation time is very competative.
The BDS® holds all 97/2003/EC and 38/2007/EC approvals for Class IV and V and interior mirror.

All trucks registered after 1-1-2000 with weight over 3.5 tons must be retrofitted with a Anti- Blind Spot Mirror before 1 st April 2009 .


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Tiefensee: Lkw müssen verbesserte Spiegel gegen "toten Winkel" nachrüsten

EU-Ministerrat in Brüssel

25. Juni 2007, Nr.: 183/2007

Der EU-Ministerrat hat heute in Brüssel die Richtlinie zur Nachrüstung schwerer Lastkraftwagen mit verbesserten Spiegeln verabschiedet. Der Vorschlag geht zurück auf eine Initiative Deutschlands und soll künftig dazu beitragen, schwere Verkehrsunfälle von Lastkraftwagen mit Radfahrern, Motorrädern und Fußgängern zu verhindern. Durch den nachträglichen Einbau der Spiegel soll der gefürchtete "tote Winkel" beseitigt und das indirekte Sichtfeld der Lkw-Fahrer erweitert werden.

Dazu erklärte der amtierende EU-Ratsvorsitzende, Bundesverkehrsminister Wolfgang Tiefensee:

"Das ist eine gute Entscheidung für mehr Verkehrssicherheit. Damit kommen wir dem Ziel einer europaweiten und einheitlichen Nachrüstpflicht für Lkw entscheidend näher. Spätestens bis April 2009 müssen innerhalb Europas alle im Verkehr befindlichen großen Lkw über 3,5 Tonnen Gewicht mit diesen Spiegeln nachgerüstet werden. Für neu zugelassene Lkw gilt die Ausrüstungspflicht bereits ab Ende Januar 2007. Nur wer sieht, was und wer sich rechts vom Lkw befindet, kann schwere, oft tödliche Unfälle vermeiden."

Die Nachrüstpflicht gilt für alle Lkw, die ab 1. Januar 2000 zugelassen worden sind.

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Dead Angle Mirror System for vans and small trucks

VAN - Dead Angle Mirror System for vans and small trucks Fitting inside the cabin against the A section

 

 

Advantages of the VANTM Dead Angle Mirror System:
● Made of Acrylic material
● Universal use
● No extended parts
● No changes to the outside of the van
● Easy mounting
● No heating required
● No vibration
● No corrosion
● No hindrance during any wash
● Saving costs

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BDS in Truckstar

Blind-spot mirrors to be retrofitted to older lorries

Parliament adopted

May 10^th, 2007 a report approving with amendments a Commission draft directive calling for blind-spot mirrors to be "retrofitted" to heavy lorries which have been in operation since 2000. The deadline will be 31 March 2009. Each year, 400 Europeans - many of them children on bikes - are killed when lorry drivers changing direction at a crossing or roundabout fail to see them in a blind spot around the vehicle.

Under a 2003 EU directive, new lorries must be equipped with blind-spot mirrors from 2007 onwards. However, at current replacement rates, the EU population of some 5 million lorries (not counting those owned in Romania and Bulgaria) would not be entirely replaced until 2023. Until then, the danger to vulnerable road users, particularly children, would continue.
The European Commission in this latest directive has therefore proposed retrofitting such mirrors to older lorries as well, i.e. those registered since 1 January 2000.  

Parliament, in adopting a report drafted by Paolo COSTA (ALDE, IT) endorsed the Commission's plans with amendments.
Parliament voted for the retrofitting exercise to be accompanied by awareness-raising campaigns about the dangers of blind spots on heavy goods vehicles, including information aimed at vulnerable road users. Light goods vehicles and buses are not covered by the directive but MEPs called for this question to be reviewed in future.

Parliament also voted for the Commission to gather data from Member States with a view to devising a future strategy on blind-spot accidents.  Lorries that can not by equipped, by technical or economical reasons, with standard mirrors may be equipped with other devices as a blind spot mirror of camera monitor systems. The BDS blind spot mirror is approved for directive 2003/97/EC (with the number no. e4*2003/97*2003/97*2309*00 for the class IV and V and with number e4*2003/97*2005/27*2305*00 for class IV, and V.)
MEPs do not anticipate any practical problem in retrofitting lorries registered since 2000. The estimated cost would be € 100 - 150 per vehicle,  i.e. the cost of one stop at a petrol station, but this measure could save up to 1,200 lives in Europe by 2020.  Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark already have national retrofitting schemes.

See for the original resolution: 
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?Type=TA&Reference=P6-TA-2007-0177&language=EN See for the text of the Directive 2007/38/EC
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2007/l_184/l_18420070714en00250028.pdf

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