The American Trucking Associations do give the number of fatalities/miles driven. I think the FMCSA does as well. It is much more objective than the idiots this article quotes.
I don\’t think driving around big trucks was ever a topic when I was in driver\’s ed. No wonder there are crashes.
Everything I know about driving near a big truck (which isn\’t much) I learned from someone else\’s mistake or my own close-calls. And I admit those close-calls were often the direct result of my ignorance for how to share the road with the trucks.
\”Studies\” like this often raise my eyebrow because I find myself questioning the way the data is presented.
Our \”free\”-marketers in the Bush-(league)administration are within days or weeks of allowing 18 wheelers from Mexico into the U.S. Clash of the titans and/or clash of cultures–here we come. They can\’t even handle our truck regulation at this point. When cops in various cities have had a campaign of stopping and inspecting US trucks, 70 to 80% have significant problems. A large percentage are immediately taken off the road.
As the Firesign Theater used to say, there\’ll be \”hamburger all over the highway in Mystic Connecticut,\” as well as other places. All hail their precious \”free market\” (a phony name for a bogus concept). Chaos is what is will be, bloody chaos. NAFTA finally comes home to haunt us–and in a twenty tons out of control \”in your face\” kind of way.
Fewer taxes, less government, dissolution of regulatory structure, expertise and will, accelerating separation of the classes in the US. Chaos. Well done, boys.
Has the commision ever considered looking at how the vehicles with only 4wheels navigate around the big trucks. They pull in front of them so close we can only call them DOA if anything happens. There is no respect given to a piece of equipment that is dangerous enough to kill them. Give the truck some respect and a wider birth and we would have less accidents as well. I know of one case where the young man was trying to really show the trucker he was something, ended up bumping up against the trailer rear tire and shooting himself off into the medial rolling…he was lucky to walk away but the truck driver was faulted. Go Figure!!!!! we need to educate our youth to have some respect for something even if it is only their own lives. At 70mph what is waiting a couple seconds to get around a slower vehicle going to really matter in the big picture of your whole life? Please take a look at the information the average driver has about a big rig and tell me they understand thousands of pounds moving at even just 55mph had some physics to it\’s momentum that are going to be fatal if he gets in the way.
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OK, so 5,000 people died in crashes with large truck in Arkansas in 2005.
How many people died due to the truck negligence and how many died because they hit the truck?
How many of the number that were due to the truck causing the accidnet the result of the driver violating laws that were already in place?
Give me these numbers and we can talk about adding new regulations. Before that, all this amounts to is another feel good reaction to a problem.
Of course if you use per capita the numbers will be higher, those idiots!
I wonder what the real deaths are in those HEAVILY populated areas?
Give me a break.. Someone else needs to get a real job. They have way too much time on their slimy hands.
In addition to the info requested by DDT, it would be helpful if they gave the population of Wyoming, Oklahoma, Arkansas, etc. in comarison to RI.
More relevant info would be the # of fatalaties to the miles driven, since one can drive across RI in an hour or two.
The American Trucking Associations do give the number of fatalities/miles driven. I think the FMCSA does as well. It is much more objective than the idiots this article quotes.
I don\’t think driving around big trucks was ever a topic when I was in driver\’s ed. No wonder there are crashes.
Everything I know about driving near a big truck (which isn\’t much) I learned from someone else\’s mistake or my own close-calls. And I admit those close-calls were often the direct result of my ignorance for how to share the road with the trucks.
\”Studies\” like this often raise my eyebrow because I find myself questioning the way the data is presented.
There\’s something amiss about this article.
Our \”free\”-marketers in the Bush-(league)administration are within days or weeks of allowing 18 wheelers from Mexico into the U.S. Clash of the titans and/or clash of cultures–here we come. They can\’t even handle our truck regulation at this point. When cops in various cities have had a campaign of stopping and inspecting US trucks, 70 to 80% have significant problems. A large percentage are immediately taken off the road.
As the Firesign Theater used to say, there\’ll be \”hamburger all over the highway in Mystic Connecticut,\” as well as other places. All hail their precious \”free market\” (a phony name for a bogus concept). Chaos is what is will be, bloody chaos. NAFTA finally comes home to haunt us–and in a twenty tons out of control \”in your face\” kind of way.
Fewer taxes, less government, dissolution of regulatory structure, expertise and will, accelerating separation of the classes in the US. Chaos. Well done, boys.
Tell me more about the 70% to 80% of trucks that are put out of service after inspection, please.
Are these DOT inspections or local cops looking for traffic and vehicle code violations?
I had no idea the number was that high. Do you know of that percentage how many are company-owned trucks vs. privately owned or leased trucks?
Thanks for the info.
Has the commision ever considered looking at how the vehicles with only 4wheels navigate around the big trucks. They pull in front of them so close we can only call them DOA if anything happens. There is no respect given to a piece of equipment that is dangerous enough to kill them. Give the truck some respect and a wider birth and we would have less accidents as well. I know of one case where the young man was trying to really show the trucker he was something, ended up bumping up against the trailer rear tire and shooting himself off into the medial rolling…he was lucky to walk away but the truck driver was faulted. Go Figure!!!!! we need to educate our youth to have some respect for something even if it is only their own lives. At 70mph what is waiting a couple seconds to get around a slower vehicle going to really matter in the big picture of your whole life? Please take a look at the information the average driver has about a big rig and tell me they understand thousands of pounds moving at even just 55mph had some physics to it\’s momentum that are going to be fatal if he gets in the way.
Amen to that and then some. I hope everyone reads your comment and gives it some consideration next time they\’re on the road with big rigs.