* California - "In 42 years of working for trucking companies and being a driver, this company ranks as the worst"
-- Maintenance violations from a company connected to a fatal accident in which a big rig crashed into a restaurant at a strip mall in Pittsburg Monday... The California Highway Patrol says it has a list of violations that suggest the deadly accident could have been prevented... ABC7 News spent the day looking into the safety of that big rig and the company that owns it. It turns out, Roby Trucking has a dubious record. The California Highway Patrol provided a stack of violations, which included all sorts of problems that came as no surprise to present and former employees. For example, in one case a big rig was driven without a lug nut... Roby Trucking owns the big rig that crashed into a Pittsburg restaurant Monday, killing the driver... Witnesses say the brakes failed, which is no surprise to Harvey, based on mechanical failures he says he has seen on trucks at the company. "Tires, brakes, drums, air lines, oil lines, water lines," he said... In a yard inspection last October, the CHP found Roby Trucking to be unsatisfactory in all categories, including record keeping... The most eye-popping violation was a roadside inspection that showed one big rig to be overloaded by 16,000 pounds...
(Photo: Roby Trucking company connected to big-rig fatal accident in Pittsburg, could have been prevented) -- Pittsburg, CAL, USA - KGO, by Wayne Freedman - March 17, 2015
* Texas - Crashes leading on-the-job cause of death for US truck drivers
-- Vehicle crashes account for the overwhelming majority of on-the-job deaths for truck drivers nationwide, a recent Vital Signs report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows... Overall, 317,000 motor vehicle crashes involving large trucks were reported to police in 2012, costing the US economy an estimated $99 billion that year. About 2.6 million workers in the US drive trucks that weigh over 10,000 pounds. After dropping to 35-year lows in 2009, the number of crash fatalities of truck drivers or their passengers increased between 2009 and 2012... Approximately 700 drivers of large trucks or their passengers died in crashes in 2012, and an estimated 26,000 were injured. About 65 percent of on-the-job deaths of truck drivers in 2012 were the result of a motor vehicle crash... More than a third of the drivers who died were not wearing a seat belt... This Vital Signs report includes data from the National Survey of US Long-Haul Truck Driver Health and Injury, conducted by CDC at 32 truck stops along interstate highways across the United States in 2010...
(Photo by Cheyenne Benson) -- San Angelo,TXS,USA -The San Angelo Live, by Chelsea Reinhard - Mar. 17, 2015Labels: dangerous companys, fatal accidents
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