Truck Safety Website - Dedicated Against Truckers

CRASH is funded by the Railroads. PATT (Parents Against Tired Truckers) is a group of parents (truckers included) whose children or other family members were killed in trucking related accidents. Not necessarily caused by the trucker, and not necessarily because of fatigue on the part of the trucker.

 

I will delete my earler statement, which you can read below.
I read all I could on there web site. I am trully appaled at some of the info they are giving and how they scew the truth to there ends.
Yes, a few ideas they have could help drivers. Yes they include some info from the OOIDA.
But if you want true change it needs to be done by the people that have a concept of what will help. Not some angry 4 wheeler drivers.
I do not mean to say that I have all the answers. Or that I even have many of the answers. But there are enough trully professional drivers around that do have ideas. That could lead to positive change. I see some of those ideas in this very thread.
The issue is that we are small fish with quiet voices.

 

Do the math, they are correct. The restart does allow you to work more if you are running the max hours per day.

 

It's too bad their focus isn't where the numbers are. I believe fighting to prevent rising occurrences of drunk driving would be more powerful to prevent deaths, accidents in general, on our roads. Not to think of any death as insignificant, the 2005 graph they have doesn't compare to these stats.

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Alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes kill someone every 31 minutes and nonfatally injure someone every two minutes(NHTSA 2006).Occurrence and Consequences

• <LI class=MsoNormal>During 2005, 16,885 people in the U.S. died in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes, representing 39% of all traffic-related deaths (NHTSA 2006).
  <LI class=MsoNormal>In 2005, nearly 1.4 million drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics (Department of Justice 2005). That’s less than one percent of the 159 million self-reported episodes of alcohol–impaired driving among U.S. adults each year (Quinlan et al. 2005).
  <LI class=MsoNormal>Drugs other than alcohol (e.g., marijuana and cocaine) are involved in about 18% of motor vehicle driver deaths. These other drugs are generally used in combination with alcohol (Jones et al. 2003).
  
• More than half of the 414 child passengers ages 14 and younger who died in alcohol-related crashes during 2005 were riding with the drinking driver (NHTSA 2006).
  
  

• In 2005, 48 children age 14 years and younger who were killed as pedestrians or pedalcyclists were struck by impaired drivers (NHTSA 2006).

http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/drving.htm for preventive strategies.

Auto accidents are the leading cause of death in drivers under the age of 34.

 

Just off on a tangent... seems that their website does not support Mexican truckers into the USA... This should please some people on one of the other threads!

 

I should have put a quote on this, there's a post about the testimonials from truckers.

Also, I have checked my junk mail and have not recieved a response from them at all yet.

 

I asked them to re-send their reply, which they did:

From their webpage:

I can't say that I disagree with ANY of their goals.

 

My problem with them is that they want to decrease the hours of service for all of us. Most of the terrible accidents they focus on where caused by driver's that went way outside the hours of service rules. Why should the rest of us pay for someone else's mistakes.

This is why I think the on board computers make the most sense and I am surprised they haven't been able to make them mandatory yet. I am not necessarily pro on board computers but it is the most logical choice for catching the driver's that drive 16-20 hours or more without resting.