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STUDY & TRUCKER's COMMENT: * USA - FMCSA: high driver turnover and crashes linked
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration concluded from a recent study that driver turnover has an impact on crash involvement for commercial truck drivers...
Washington,DC,USA -Trucking Blog Network, by Wayne Weisser -29 Oct 2008: -- I’ve changed jobs more than a few times.The wrecks I’ve had, (small fender bender or backing into something) have been when I was new to driving, not new to a company. Trucking is trucking. Driving for a different company means different customers and unfamiliar areas, but most OTR drivers go to new places all the time... "One reason for the study is FMCSA’s goal to reduce the large truck fatality rate by 41 percent from 1996 to 2008, or in other words, a rate of 1.65 fatalities per 100 million miles of truck travel..." Truck fatality rates have been on a downward trend for the last several years. They make it sound like turnover is the sole cause of truck wrecks... “The purpose of this study, therefore, was to gain a better understanding of the extent to which truck crashes during long-haul, over-the-road operations can be linked to churning among commercial drivers, and to identify strategies with the greatest potential to improve driver retention and safety... FMCSA found that a Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) driver with two or more different jobs in two years had a higher risk of being crash-involved than a CMV driver with less than two different jobs or a more stable employment history. The risk is gradual at first, then accelerates as the job change rate increases..." If you have more than two different jobs or more in two years, there may be something else going on besides just job hopping for greener pastures... "FMCSA identified six areas where specific changes hold the potential to improve driver retention and safety: selection and hiring; training procedures; dispatch operations; working conditions for long-haul operators; safety-related rewards and incentives; and improving perceptions of the truck driving profession...·" Thank goodness for the FMCSA! Thanks for stating the obvious. Wonder how much that study cost us...
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