I don't think automatics come into play. There isn't a specific type of accident that you would have in an automatic vs a standard.
Acceptable loss ratio
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Well, with cameras being put in trucks..the truth will be on record. Ever seen a guy eat a burrito going 55 in a 65 and swerving all over the road. Yea, where's that statistic at. Truckers driving while eating burritos!
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In the end I guess it's just business. In big corporate culture profits are king. Not just with trucks. With all business. Consider this: General Motors knew long before they recalled the Cobalt that they had an switch design issue and it was killing people. It is now public knowledge that they had a meeting to discuss whether it would be cheaper to recall them, or to continue to pay settlements to the people that were already dead and the one's who would be killed in the future. Now to even have such a meeting weighing the merits of these two decisions is disgusting to even think about to me, but they did it. There's big business for you. Probably no different with big carriers. Is the cost of increased training more or less than keeping current practices and settling lawsuits? It's too bad but whichever one is less will win just about every time. Like they say, "that's business".jinxutoo001 and Chasingthesky Thank this. -
Everyone seems to enamored with the numbers and the statistics that FMCSA shows on their website. The numbers simply show the number of fatal accidents companies have been involved in, not the total number of people that actually died in each individual crash. It also doesn't show who was at fault. i.e. a van full of folks could slam into the back of a truck stopped at a light. Not the drivers fault, but 5 people killed. The Federal statics would show 1 fatal crash. If it's a small Co. with say 5 trucks the statics would show 20% of their vehicles have been involved in fatal crashes.
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Would like to know where the op got his numbers from.As its seems that it so easy just to blame the truck driver.
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And the numbers are often under reported. For instance -- All those fedex ground crashes? they get charged to the DOT number of the subcontractor, not fed ex.
Finally, over 60% of highway fatalities happen to people not wearing a seatbelt. Those might as well be called suicides imo
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