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HOS.III - USA - Activists want tighter hours rule
USA - eTrucker News, by Lance Orr -4 Nov 2005: -- Four activist groups, calling themselves the Truck Safety Coalition, held a press conference Oct. 17 in Washington, D.C., urging the U.S. Congress not to write the new driver hours-of-service rule into law... Citizens for Reliable and Safe Highways, Parents Against Tired Truckers, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, and Public Citizen also renewed their pleas for the U.S. Department of Transportation to lower the maximum driving time... The groups criticized the 11-hour drive times, the 34-hour restart provision and the absence of electronic on-board recorders... according to the FMCSA, only 5.5 percent of truck-related fatalities are because of fatigue. "We at FMCSA will continue to look at the science and the data to reduce fatalities in not only this 5.5 percent of truck crashes which are fatigue-related but in the other 94.5 percent of large truck crashes as well", said FMCSA Administrator Annette Sandberg... Jackie Gillan, vice president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, said: "Truck deaths are increasing, government safety goals are ignored, and enforcement of safety rules is suspended while special trucking interests continue to push a dangerous agenda in Congress. It’s time to stop coddling the trucking industry and make the safety of all motorists, including truck drivers, a priority"... According to the 2004 FARS, "The most lethal state in the country, measured by truck crash fatalities per 100,000 population, is Wyoming, followed by Arkansas, Alabama, West Virginia, Mississippi, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Georgia", the activists announced. Wyoming had 8.09 truck crash deaths per 100,000 people. Hawaii was last on the list with 0.32 deaths per 100,000 people. The complete list is posted at www.citizen.org....
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