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Criminal records... * USA - ... of errant truckers
Dallas,TX,USA -The Houston Chronicle (Houston,TX) -Dec. 12, 2006: -- A quarter of big-rig truck drivers faulted in fatal crashes in Texas from 2000 through 2005 had rap sheets, according to a newspaper analysis... 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 before their accidents. More than one in 10 were felons... With a shortage of experienced truck drivers, some trucking companies are hiring ex-convicts as low-cost labor — and the state of Texas is helping train the drivers... A Texas Department of Criminal Justice program has trained more than 1,200 inmates to drive big trucks over the past 10 years. More than 900 received their commercial driver's licenses while in prison, state records show...
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