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Justice * Ireland - Is blind for truckers
The murderous and irresponsible behaviour of many, if not most, truck drivers on the highways of this country must be addressed once and for allDublin,Ireland -Irish Independent -March 19 2008: -- ... Today, a Road Safety Authority report -- the latest of many on this apparently intractable scandal -- tells us that nine out of 10 trucks are speeding on our motorways... In urban areas, eight out of 10 truck drivers ignore the speed limit. Consequently, hardly a day goes by without sudden death inflicted by a heavy truck... For the speed of heavy goods vehicles is supposed to be limited by electronic "governers" and the number of hours spent driving without a break is supposed to be controlled by tachographs. Truckers are simply defying the law by disconnecting the first and ignoring the second... The combination of speed and weariness is a lethal one... We know that one in every five crashes on Irish roads is linked to drivers falling asleep at the wheel. Truck drivers working to delivery deadlines are particularly at risk... But commercial pressure is not a legitimate excuse for endangering innocent lives... Again, one in five road deaths involves heavy goods vehicles... It appears that, for them, justice is blind and the law is simply not being enforced... Or can it be that there is one law for the private motorist and another for the truck driver?...
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