Sleep-related crash prompts NTSB call for research

Oh, sure, easier said than done when you sit ALL day long for a load, can't sleep, have to put on your log you did, and have to run all night. BS. It is NOT all the trucker's fault and EVERY accident like that should be ACCOUNTABLE to the trucker, the trucking company, AND the shipper/receiver! THEN...once the huge companies are held responsible as well...will anything change...so do all the studies you want, you imbeciles...either get to the SOURCE of the problem or you will NEVER fix ####!

 

I agree with you Wise - could not have said it better myself. We also need more rest areas / truck stops where we can legally stop to sleep.

 

Definitely need more rest areas/truck stops (pay attention New Jersey!). The digusting thing is that the crash stats don't back up the premise that tired truckers are causing the majority of the accidents involving drowsiness when it's a car - truck accident. Maybe they should be looking at the car drivers instead.

 

I have never understood the need for sitting at the dock all day after you just slept that night and the company actually thinking you are back in the bunk sleeping for more hours. Like it really happened and they then expect overnight delivery.

The reason for the 14 hour window and all of this was to get the driver onto a regular cycle.

 

The bus just hit a overturned truck? How does that happen? I can understand if it was just out of a big curve or something but how could you NOT see a big old truck laying there or see that something was going on? Was there any evidence that the bus driver took measure to possibly prevent the accident? I see nothing mentioned except total blame on the TRUCKING INDUSTRY!!!!!!!!!

Maybe the people who do these studies need to drive a truck for a while. They will eventually see who/why/what causes the accidents most of the time. I dont blame all accidents on 2-wheelers and 4-wheelers but I'd be willing to say that in all truck/car accidents at least 75% or more was to blame on a 2-wheeler/4 -wheeler. This is even if a car isn't involved. How many times have you had to hit the brakes and hope for the best for a 4-wheeler or 2-wheeler that cut you off?

Oh yeah......something else.......if ya'll aren't allowed to use some of the roads that those 2-wheelers and 4-wheelers are allowed on they they should make them stay off of the interstates! Make them drive on their little precious highways and byways. lol

Heck maybe some truck drivers needs to record some of the crazy things that other people do and send it in.

Heck, just maybe they need to put chicken coops on the highways for 4-wheelers too, they could make more money from them. Think about the drugs and DUIs they could get money off of. Not to mention the tickets for slicks, expired tags, improperly placed child/baby car seats, no insurance, brake lights, head lights and a favorite now days.....tag lights.


Ok....off my soap box.

 

Good soap box! 68% of fatal accidents between big rigs and cars wer the fault of the car in the '05 or '06 stats. The really sick thing that of the fatal accidents between cars and big trucks where drowsiness was cited, 94% of the time it was the fault of the car driver! But they still want to put the blame on the truckers.

 

Truck drivers soon may have to install equipment in their trucks in order to make sure drivers stay awake.
At least one federal investigator claims "tiredness" is a factor in about one in eight big truck crashes. It's why some are now talking about things like mandated high-tech alarm systems that would alert drowsy drivers.
Dave Creer of the Utah Trucking Association says technology is fine, but mandates, not so much.
"When the government mandates something, it's always difficult for the small guy, the middle guy, the large fleet," he said. A federal board also is recommending companies work harder to make sure their drivers get enough rest. Creer says the vast majority of truckers is well trained and already closely monitored for safety.

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