I was watching some videos of the Renegade Trucker on YouTube last night and he posed an interesting question in one of them; that is, when is it ok for a company to kill people? Not actively killing anyone, like taking them out back and they're never seen again but there are companies whose culture and standard operating procedure lead to a lot of dead bodies and at some level they're obviously ok with it since they aren't changing. The Renegade Trucker used Swift in his video as they're the worse or one of the worst offenders whose hiring practices, revolving door policy and lack of anything resembling a competent training program have led to 58 deaths in the past two years. Here's a few others that don't seem to mind the exorbitantly high body count. Feel free to add to the list.
Fatal crashes in the past two years -
Swift - 58
CR England - 22
Werner - 41
JB Hunt - 26
Acceptable loss ratio
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All this post is going to do is attract the ordinary typical responses about these companies.
How about you give us something we haven't heard before?LGarrison, Lonesome and rocknroll81 Thank this. -
Well, I hadn't heard about or paid attention to the fatality statistics part of the equation before so it's new to me. Besides, wouldn't want to break the TTR SOP of rehashing everything a thousand times
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The larger a company is, the more likely this is going to happen, just because the odds are greater due to more drivers driving more trucks.
That's just the way it is.HousTank, 25(2)+2, 4mer trucker and 3 others Thank this. -
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The revolving door is more a result of small margins. Thousands of trucks making small amounts adds up to an overall large revenue. Therefore their business model is best served by keeping as many newbies making peanuts as possible.
It's not a body count, it's a dollar count. Always follow the money.austinmike Thanks this. -
But like you said, numbers go up, probability goes up. I drive for a bigger LTL, and we certainly have our share.
A more accurate way of looking at it would be by percentage, like how many in the fleet vs how many get wrecked. -
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There is also the fact that the poorer drivers for the cheaper companies won't have the money or smarts to sue the company when something fatal happens.
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Trucking is a dangerous job, regardless of one's quality of training or experience level, any driver can be dead before the next sunrise while performing normal driver related duties. And the more drivers you have, the more deaths you're going to have. Period. You can argue that 100% of crash/incident fatalities were preventable but that won't get you far in the end.
The matter of trucker-at-fault and killing others might be a different discussion. But the legal system is in place to insure no one escapes responsibility and pays "the price", whatever the price is.
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