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Truck Drivers * The Netherlands - Not The Dangerous Ones On The Road
The Hague,Netherlands -SkyNewswire, by Kyle Jernigan -30 April 2008: -- Many people believe that truck drivers are “the dangerous villains of the highway.“... The facts of life, and in this case the facts of the modern day trucking industry, are quite the opposite... Truck drivers have to go to trucking school in order to obtain the license to drive commercially. Then they have to go through a long list of tests in order to obtain employment with a trucking company. After they’re employed there are then miles upon miles of legislation governing every aspect of their job... Then you have the trucking company standards. Almost every company requires a “clean and kept” look about their applicants. All companies perform drug screens prior to employment and random screens during employment. They all perform background checks and MVR reports (motor vehicle reports). They also perform what’s called a DAC report – which is a transportation specific agency set up to keep track of truck drivers and their work histories... Name another industry with these stringent of hiring standards and also has this high of an expense to recruit employees. I can’t name one either. The bottom line is this: it’s more difficult to get a job as a commercial truck driver than it is to become an EMT Basic... Here’s a ratio for your consideration – 4,000:1. Commercial truckers drive 4,000 times the number of miles and get involved in an accident as compared to standard drivers – referred to as 4-wheelers by those that drive 18-wheelers. This means, that if you drove 10 miles to work and got in an accident, and drove home from work that day and got in an accident, the commercial truck driver would have driven 80,000 miles and gotten into 2 accidents. Have you driven 20 miles and had 2 accidents? It’s no big deal for commercial drivers to go MILLIONS of miles accident free. This can be attributed to the care these men and women take towards operating safely on more than a day-by-day basis – it’s moment by moment. The regulations and restrictions these drivers abide by can also be attributed to their miles upon miles of safety... They work hard and don’t get the greatest of pay. It takes a special person to commit your career to the road so next time you see a truck driver, give them a wave. They’ll appreciate it...
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