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In drive for profits * USA - Trucking company routinely puts overweight rigs on the road
Ocala,FL,USA -Ocala.com, by FRED HIERS -21 Oct 2007: -- Vivian Bernard wasn't surprised when one of the tires under his tractor-trailer finally blew... Working for Benton Express Inc.'s Ocala terminal, his company-owned truck was often over its legal weight coming back to Ocala, barreling down Interstate 75... He said he complained to his bosses about the weight problem, about the truck being harder to handle because of the extra freight, about the danger to himself and other motorists. But in the end, he said, they didn't care... Besides, he needed the job, so he kept quiet and kept driving... Lannen of the Truck Safety Coalition said Benton is typical of many trucking companies. He says that while some companies obey the law, the industry overall is arrogant, flaunts the law and thinks it knows better... "Every industry has its culture and that's just the trucking industry, and there's no sense of urgency to change, because they don't feel the pain when they break the law"... Florida, like most other states, doesn't put enough trucking inspectors on the road and its fines are inadequate, he said...
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