Attention all company drivers!!!

There are rules here about posting links, but could you give us a hint where you found those statistics?

With OVER 70% of fatal crashes betwixt Big trucks and automobiles having been determined to be the fault of the automobiles, your comparison seems a tad out of whack.

 

Well, here's the stats I found:

Source:
U.S. Department of Labor
Occupational Safety & Health Administration

http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/trucking_industry/safety.html


Roughly 475,000 large trucks with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 10,000 pounds are involved in crashes which result in approximately 5,360 fatalities and 142,000 injuries each year.

5,360 fatalities resulting from big trucks each year.



Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_conflict_in_Iraq_since_2003


4,000 U.S. Armed forces soldiers dead as of March 2008. As of March 2008 there were 8,914 wounded requiring medical air transport. 20,416 wounded did not require medical air transport. Of all the wounded 13,109 were unable to return to duty within 72 hours.

4000 U.S Soldiers dead as of March 2008 in the Iraq War.


Source:
Lil' ol' me


Now, this is only the stats of the Iraq War since 2008. If you include the casualties for the first Iraq War and the war in Afganistan, the casualty list will go up, but the casualties for both those wars was quite low. If you include the casualties of Iraqi soldiers, the casualties of war goes off the chart.

So, if you are just talking about American casualties, your statistics are not "out of whack" at all. But, if you are talking American and Iraqi casualties, there's no competition... the wars win the casualty count, hands down.

 

You should have read the whole article--It also says that 74% of the fatalities were from other vehicles such as passenger cars. It also says that about 70% of all crashes involving big trucks, the unsafe actions of the car was a contributing factor. Also exceeding the speed limits was afactor in only 22% of all the crashes. So there you have it.

As far as the war, you do know this is total dead Americans, we have been there for 6 years.
But then comparing traffic fatalities to war fatalities is really kind of stupid.

 

Also, in the 22% where speed was a factor, only a small fraction of that number was the truck speeding. They do not separate which vehicle speeding in there stats.

 

sounds to me as if u got ur butt handed to u on a nice shiny silver platter aristotle35769... maybe u should read everything before u go running off at the mouth or in this case at the keyboard...i am so sick of the nonsense that goes around like that...why can't people get the facts straight before putting them out there for everyone else to read?

 

You should have read the whole thread. A comparison to unrelated topics is a common analogy to the "OH WOW!" factor. Had you read the whole thread (and apparently you did not), you would have seen that I was supplying statistics to the assertions of a previous post... not making an assertion of "THE WAR" in itself.

Not reading the thread in its entirety before making a bold response to it is even more "kind of stupid".

Aristotle

 

i know right

 

HeY Bull!
Is that handsome guy drivin' that Big truck in the photo ---- YOU?
I know you say you're from Brooklyn, but lookin' out the driver's side window, it looks more like my neck of the woods, here in SoCal.

Just wonderin'.

 

So, begs the question: Did you ?

 

Not as free as some like to believe if companies can get away with this....DAC? Come ON, give me a break, already...