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Dec 11, 2006

Analysis * USA - Newspaper finds truckers often carry rap sheets

Dallas,TX,USA -The Fort Worth Star Telegram (Fort Worth,TX)/AP/The Dallas Morning News -10 Dec 2006: -- A quarter of big-rig truck drivers faulted in fatal crashes in Texas from 2000 through 2005 had rap sheets... The Dallas Morning News' analysis discovered that of 953 truckers faulted in fatal crashes during that time frame, at least one in four had been convicted of a criminal offense or received deferred adjudication - in which a defendant's record doesn't reflect a conviction as long as probation is completed - before the crash... More than 14 percent had committed drug or alcohol offenses prior to their accidents. More than one in 10 were felons...

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