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Solutions * USA - To Truck Drivers' Complaints.
Alexandria, VA,USA - My life as a truck driver -29 May 2008: -- American Trucking Associations (ATA), cites their top-10 "gripes" and says the trucking industry's largest trade group thinks "they're justified and is doing something about it." ... The complaints, in descending order of severity, are:
1. Aggressive driving and road rage.
2. Hours of service (currently based on 11 hours on, ten off).
3. Increasing congestion.
4. Lumping (drivers having to load and unload their trucks themselves).
5. Unreasonable shipper demands (time and distance insistence for deliveries that tax the drivers' endurance, sometimes resulting in speeding and driver fatigue).
6. Lack of respect from shippers, receivers, and dispatchers.
7. Increasing high crime in rest areas.
8. Unreasonable treatment by law enforcement.
9. Low pay
10. Unsafe inspection sites.
In defense of truckers, he points out that the accident rate of large trucks dropped 35% from 1986 to 1996, even while driven mileage increased 40%, adding that "Federal Highway Administration data also show that, in 71% of all fatal car-truck accidents, the car driver was at fault."...
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