18 September 2026
A Quiet Hurricane Season Won’t Mean a Quiet Year for Road Risk
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ’s (NOAA) latest Atlantic hurricane outlook is calling for a below-normal 2026 season . It’s welcome news, on its face, for any fleet that has spent years threading dispatch schedules around tropical storm warnings and coastal evacuations. According to Lytx ® ’s 2026 Road Safety Report , drawn from more than 341 billion miles of driving data across 6. 3 million commercial drivers, a quieter storm season doesn’t mean a quieter year on the road. In fact, collisions in the construction industry rose 28% in 2025, the steepest increase of any sector Lytx tracks.
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