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Aug 21, 2014

TRUCKS ACCIDENTS' * USA - Great decline

* Rhode Island - Fatal crashes involving trucks have seen great decline 

Providence,Rhode Island,USA -The Providence Journal --August 20, 2014: -- Comment by Christopher J. Maxwell, president and CEO of the Rhode Island Trucking Association: The Aug. 5 Commentary piece (“Tired truck drivers pose deadly risk”) by Karen Levy provides an inaccurate and offensive picture of an industry that not only moves the vast majority of our nation’s goods but has done so while making marked safety improvements and investing more than $7.5 billion annually on safety-related technologies... In 1979, the year before the industry was economically deregulated, large trucks were involved in more than five fatal crashes for every 100 million miles they traveled. More than 30 years later, that figure is down to just one fatal crash per 100 million miles — a decline of more than 75 percent. At the same time, the number of trucks on the road and the volume of freight being moved have all dramatically increased... The industry is pressing for universal implementation of electronic logging to improve compliance with work and rest rules. Technologies like speed limiters to reduce crashes and further improve safety are being introduced... Contrary to Ms. Levy’s claim, fatigue is not the leading cause of crashes involving large trucks — and neither are drivers’ paychecks. The leading cause of crashes involving large trucks are factors like speeding, aggressive driving, distracted or impaired driving — and the bulk of truck-involved fatal crashes (70 percent, according to our government) — are not caused by the truck, but by passenger vehicles they share the road with... Trucks move America, to portray the 7 million professionals in trucking as egregiously unsafe is not only irresponsible but counterproductive and harmful...

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