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SECURITY - USA - Sought on Rule for Truckers
Lakeland,FL,USA - The Ledger,by JEFF NESMITH/Cox News Service - February 2, 2005: -- WASHINGTON,USA: ... administration is asking for public comment on a rule,... that allows drivers of big trucks to spend up to 11 straight hours on the road without rest... That's an hour longer than old rules allowed... About 5,000 fatal crashes involving big trucks occur annually in America, ... by about 10 percent between 1991 and 2001, ... On average, large trucks are involved in 2.3 fatal crashes for every 100 million miles they travel. Passenger cars have an average of 1.9 fatal crashes for every 100 million miles,...
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posted by Unknown @ 3:26 PM
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i would like to say that logging trucks are very scary and dangerious the way they are over loaded and unsafe not maintained very well they travel country roads very fast i was in volved in a accident were a logging trucks wheels and axcel came off and hit me head on by the grace of god me and my husband werent hurt very baddley but scared to deathand shook up totaled my car while on vacation (trucks need more maintaining inspected more often
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