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Z Lady · **^ Top** #11 11.08.2006

My quess is that you must be a Floridian to own a gator! I read in the papers weeks ago that they were thinking about excluding the gators in the Florida Keys as endangered species. So why all of the hallabaloo! Whatever!

mrjuggalo9er · **^ Top** #12 11.08.2006

According to OSHA statistics truck driving is the single most dangerous occupation in the country. More truck drivers are killed on the job every year than workers in any other job field. Drivers are killed in the obvious accidents involving traffic wrecks and work-related accidents as well as the less obvious such as being murdered in rest areas and truckstop parking lots. Hundreds of truck drivers are murdered on the job every year.
Of the 399,000 police-reported crashes involving large trucks in 2004, 4,440 (1 percent) resulted in at least one fatality, and 83,000 (21 percent) resulted in at least one nonfatal injury.
Single-vehicle crashes made up 18 percent of all fatal crashes, 18 percent of all injury crashes, and 28 percent of all property damage only crashes involving large trucks.
Two-thirds (66 percent) of all fatal crashes involving large trucks occurred on rural roads, and one-fourth (25 percent) occurred on Interstate highways.
One-third (33 percent) of all fatal crashes and nearly one-fourth (21 percent) of all property damage only crashes involving large trucks occurred at night.
The vast majority of fatal crashes (85 percent) and of nonfatal crashes (88 percent) involving large trucks occurred on weekdays (Monday through Friday).

did you all read this one

The New Yorker · **^ Top** #13 11.09.2006

This sucks! I work Monday - Friday JK.... But I did know driving was in the top 10 most dangerous... Discovery Channel said we were 9th or tenth though.

Hollys Baby · **^ Top** #14 11.11.2006

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Originally Posted by MACK E-6

I know it's a link. I just don't appreciate yet another apparent implication that truck drivers are all stupid.

The link was to the page, thats why I inserted the GATOR heading.
And where does it say "All Truckers are STUPID" on that page or the whole site for that matter. If you don't think straping a GATOR to the back of your truck isn't STUPID then chances are you won't be able to understand the site/page anyway!
I am a driver, have been for more years than I want to think about. No, not all drivers are stupid, but if you can't see that wayyyyyy to many are then you are part of the problem!!
Try to lighten up and smile!

Hollys Baby · **^ Top** #15 11.11.2006

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Originally Posted by The New Yorker

This sucks! I work Monday - Friday JK.... But I did know driving was in the top 10 most dangerous... Discovery Channel said we were 9th or tenth though.

The top ten most dangerous jobs in America/Fatality Rates
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
1. Timber Cutters - 117.8

2. Fishers - 71.1

3. Pilots & Navigators - 69.8

4. Structual Metal Workers - 58.2

5. Driving-Sales Workers - 37.9

6. Roofers - 37.0
7. Electrical Power Installers - 32.5
8. Farm Occupations - 28.0

9. Construction Laborers - 27.7
10. Truck Drivers - 25.0
Note: In terms of sheer numbers, more truck drivers died on the job than any other vocation in the top ten. But because there are so many truckers, their fatality rate is only 25 per 100,000, giving them tenth place on the list. Truckers die, mostly in traffic accidents, at six times the average rate but less than a quarter the rate of timber cutters.
Like the crabbers, truckers are often under intense time pressure; the faster they move their goods around the country the more money they make. The often self-employed truckers face cut-throat competition and battle big overheads paying off expensive rigs. Exhausted truckers sometimes push themselves past their breaking point to squeeze extra dollars out of their work-week, becoming a danger to others, and, as the numbers suggest, to themselves.

creekrd · **^ Top** #16 10.23.2008

I have to agree w/the statistics concerning the m-f accident rates. I have been involved in 2 serious wrecks both on a monday. Each where someone ran a stop sign on a rural road. I lost my left leg below the knee in 86. Currently I am home since 02 recouping from shoulder,back, neck, head and both knees. It just blows me away that someone cannot see 80k lbs rolling down the road !!!! Then I have too defend myself in court. They get the tickets and are found guilty but some sorry ##### money hungry lawyer see big truck. So that must mean big $$$. It just burns my #####......

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