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DANGEROUS TRUCKS
* USA - Insurer pinpoints truck crash frequency
MAYFIELD VILLAGE, Oh,USA -Today's Trucking (Canada) -11 Oct 2006: -- Progressive Commercial, part of the Progressive Group of Insurance Companies, finds that crashes involving trucks occur least often at either end of the business work week and mostly in the summer time... Most crashes, the report says, involving light local vehicles happened on Fridays, while the least number of crashes happened on Tuesdays and Mondays (Saturdays and Sundays were excluded from the study). However, crashes involving heavier trucks happened most often on Thursdays and least often on Mondays and Fridays. January Winter Blues Equals Fewer Crashes:...
* USA - NBC2 helps to search for overweight trucks
COLLIER COUNTY,FL,USA -WBBH (Ft. Myers,FL)/NBC2 News -6 Oct 2006: -- Overweight trucks pose a serious danger to drivers in Southwest Florida... Recently, NBC2's Doug Kolk was able to hit the road with officials from Florida's Department of Transportation to search for unsafe rigs... Driving your car next to 40 tons of rolling steel can weigh on anyone's nerves. Then consider that in Florida, heavy trucks contributed to nearly 17,000 crashes last year. Many of them involved vehicles that failed to meet code which made it clear that overweight rigs needed to be specifically targeted by law enforcement officials...
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