Hype, Histeria from the FMCSA

AND OF COURSE ITS BS ITS ALL ABOUT MONEY NOBODY REALLY CARES ABOUT TRUCK DRIVERS BUT THEY HAVE TO DO SOMETHING TO JUSTIFTY THEM GETTING THEIR PAYDAY. WHEN THEY PUT ALL THE OLDER DRIVERS OFF THE ROAD WHO IS GOING TO DRIVE THESE TRUCKS MOST YOUNGER PEOPLE ARE NOT ENTERING THIS FIELD AS THE PAY IS SO MOST LOWER THAN ANOTHER FIELD OF WORK

 

A little bit of data for all you folks.

Of course this is a government funded study so it can't be correct or has a subversive undertone that can only be reveled to those chosen few.

Critical Events ​

Three major types of critical events were assigned to large trucks:

• Running out of the travel lane, either into another lane or off the road (32 percent of the large trucks in the LTCCS sample were assigned this critical event)
• Vehicle loss of control due to traveling too fast for conditions, cargo shift, vehicle systems failure, poor road conditions, or other reasons (29 percent)
• Colliding with the rear end of another vehicle in the truck's travel lane (22 percent).

Critical Reasons ​

The percentage of large trucks coded with a critical reason depends on the type of crash:

• Of the large trucks involved in all LTCCS crashes (single-vehicle and multi-vehicle), 55 percent were assigned the critical reason in crashes.
• Of the large trucks involved in two-vehicle LTCCS crashes between one truck and one passenger vehicle (a car, van, pickup truck, or sport utility vehicle), 44 percent were assigned the critical reason.

Table 1 shows the critical reasons assigned, by major categories.

Table 1
Estimated Numbers of Trucks in All Crashes, by Critical Reasons
Critical Reasons Number of Trucks Percent of Total
Driver ............................... 68,000 87%
Non-Performance .................. 9,000 12%
Recognition .........................22,000 28%
Decision .............................30,000 38%
Performance ......................... 7,000 9%
Vehicle ............................... 8,000 10%
Environment .........................2,000 3%

Total Number of Large Trucks Coded with Critical Reason 78,000 100%
Total Number of Large Trucks Not Coded with Critical Reason 63,000 '
Total Number of Large Trucks Involved in Crashes 141,000 '

Notes: Results shown are national estimates for the 141,000 large trucks estimated to have been involved in fatal and injury crashes during the study period. The estimates may differ from true values, because they are based on a probability sample of crashes and not a census of all crashes. Estimates are rounded to the nearest 1,000 large trucks.

Here is the link if you want to read the whole study: http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/facts-research/research-technology/analysis/FMCSA-RRA-07-017.htm