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DANGEROUS TRUCKERS * USA: Asleep at wheel
* Texas - Carriers profit from trucker training mills
Texarkana,TXS,USA -People's World, by DESIREE WOOD -October 6 2014: -- The FMCSA has been asleep at the wheel, putting people at risk on America's highways. The public must educate themselves on this topic and demand action. They must understand they are at risk by these sweatshops on wheels driving next to them on the interstate...
LETTER FROM A WOMEN TRUCKER:
My name is Sandi Talbott, I am 71 years old and I have been driving for 34 years. Only drivers like me see the effects of poor entry level driver training when we are out on the road, not the CDL school administrators, not the American Trucking Associations not the Commercial Vehicle Training Association. We see the student truck driver crashes that do not make the news and the scattered rigs along the off-ramps operated by a new drivers that have not been taught to park, back up properly, manage their hours of service, logbook or know how to stick up for themselves against training carriers pushing them because they are an expendable cheap labor source. In our weekly group we have come in contact with student drivers who are put out on the highway with as little as two weeks experience and they are running freight even though they feel they are not prepared to do so. There is no oversight on the turnover rate in the training carriers and the claims of the ATA of a critical driver shortage. As a veteran driver and as a taxpayer I feel if the FMCSA truly cared about safety they would have a cap on how many students could be recruited by a training carrier per year. Government funding for entry level driver training has become a welfare program for some big carriers that the ATA represents. This system is setup that someone with my qualified driving experience cannot train an entry level driver but a person who has just a few months of experience CAN train another student. This is not highway safety. Our group wishes to educate elected officials and the motoring public how government funds like MAP-21 are being misused at carriers who are recruiting between 90 and 200 entry level drivers each week without accountability. Carriers like Werner, CR England, Covenant Transport, CRST Van Expedited, SWIFT, US Xpress, New Prime, these are just few of the carriers who use students to run team freight before they have enough skill, sell them on a lease owner-operator one sided sharecropper trucking programs, and do not provide qualified logbook training or equipment training. The FMCSA should conduct an audit into these carriers with regard to the government funds they are receiving to train students, the turnover rate associated with them, exit interviews from those who sought training and compare just how many of these entry level drivers are now out of the system. Drivers who have no desire to train are pressured into taking on the task. This is highly dangerous and can become volatile, especially for females...
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