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Mar 21, 2016

TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS WORLDWIDE * 1.25 million people killed... ** And sends 2.5 million to ERs Each Year

* Swiss - Traffic accidents kill 1.25 million people each year worldwide 

--  Traffic accidents kill about 1.25 million people each year around the world, participants at a forum on road safety warned Wednesday, calling on countries to work to reduce the alarming figure... World Health Organization (WHO) chief Margaret Chan conveyed a message from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, saying that “reducing traffic deaths is one of the Sustainable Development Goals and an obligation for the world” ... Some 90 percent of all traffic fatalities occur in developing countries, Chan said, adding that at least another 30 million people are injured in road accidents... Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death among young people aged 15-29 years. Almost half of all road traffic deaths are “vulnerable road users” — pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists, a recent WHO report said... Some 1,500 delegates from more than 100 countries, including health, transport and interior ministers, have gathered in Brasilia to find solutions to halve road traffic deaths and injuries by 2020... On the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims that falls on Nov. 15, Ban called on governments “to tighten enforcement of laws on speeding, drinking and driving, and to mandate and enforce the use of seatbelts, motorcycle helmets and child restraints — all of which have been shown to save lives” ... According to Chan, each year 500 billion U.S. dollars is spent worldwide on treating traffic accident victims, a substantial amount that could be better spent...
(File Photo AFP-Lehtikuva)  --  Geneve, Switzerland -  FTimes/Xinhua Report - Nov 19, 2015

 ** USA -  Traffic accidents send 2.5 million to ERs each year, CDC says

  -- Road crash injuries sent more than 2.5 million Americans to emergency rooms in 2012. And, nearly 200,000 were hospitalized due to motor vehicle collisions, a new federal government report says... That means about 7,000 people went to the emergency department every day because of motor vehicle crash injuries in 2012, according to Ileana Arias, principal deputy director for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control andP revention (CDC)... “Motor vehicle crash injuries occur all too frequently and have health and economic costs for individuals, the health care system, and society. We need to do more to keep people safe and reduce crash injuries and medical costs,” Arias said in an agency news release... The lifetime medical expenses for those crash injuries totaled $18 billion. That includes $10 billion for those admitted to hospital and $8 billion for patients treated in ERs and released, according to the Oct. 7 Vital Signsreport by the CDC... Work lost over a lifetime due to crash-related injuries in 2012 cost about $33 billion, the report found. The average lifetime cost of each crash-related ER visit was $3,300, and $57,000 for each hospitalization. More than 75 percent of costs occur during the first 18 months after the injury, according to the report... Teens and young adults — aged 15 to 29 — have a much higher risk for road crash injuries and accounted for nearly 1 million of such injuries in 2012 (38 percent). On the other end of the age spectrum, people older than 80 had the highest hospitalization rates. One-third of those over 80 injured in crashes ended up hospitalized, the report noted... There was some good news in the report. There were nearly 400,000 fewer ER visits and 5,700 fewer hospitalizations for crash-related injuries in 2012 than in 2002, according to the report. That translates to about $1.7 billion less in lifetime medical costs and $2.3 billion less in lifetime lost work costs, the report found... “Motor vehicle crashes and related injuries are preventable,” Gwen Bergen, a behavioral scientist in the division of unintentional injury prevention at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, said in the CDC news release... “Although much has been done to help keep people safe on the road, no state has fully implemented all the interventions proven to increase the use of car seats, booster seats, and seat belts; reduce drinking and driving; and improve teen driver safety,” she added...
(HealthDay News Picture)  -- Washington, DC, USA - Ministry of Safety - 11th Oct 2015


*** USA - Study: Poor people more likely to die in traffic accidents

– The good news is that because of advances in automobile safety, fewer Americans are dying in car crashes. The bad news is that Americans who are struggling financially are not sharing in those advances, and are more likely than the well-to-do to die in a car crash. For people 25 and older who have less than a high school diploma, fatality rates have actually increased between 1995 and 2010. Researchers looked at data from the National Center for Health Statistics and the Current Population Survey to determine traffic fatalities and education levels. They found the death rate for drivers, pedestrians and cyclists were about 2.5 times higher for those with the least education in 1995. By 2010 they were 4.3 times more likely to die in an accident, compared to higher education levels. “It’s true that there are big differences in the quality of the residential environments that people have in terms of their risks of accidental death as pedestrians,” study co-author Sam Harper told the Washington Post. Harper explains it’s not that a college degree makes someone a better driver. People with lower educations tend to driver older cars that lack many of the safety features found in new cars, like side airbags, automatic warnings and rear cameras...
(Photo by David McNew/Getty Images - Researchers say those with lower education levels do not have access to the latest safety features found in new cars)   --  Washington, DC, USA  - CBSDC - October7, 2015

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Oct 3, 2011

TRUCKS STATISTICS - Japan - Trucks Production Surpasses Pre-Quake Level

(Getty Images: Nissan cars are loaded onto a cargo ship Japan)
Tokyo,Japan -Drivers's Seat, by Yoshio Takahashi -September 30, 2011: -- Japan’s auto production rose in August from a year earlier, eclipsing the pre-quake level of a year earlier for the first time since the March disasters, as car makers closed in on a complete restoration of their once-crippled parts supply chains...  Production of cars, trucks and buses in Japan increased 1.8% from the previous year to 704,096 in August, while vehicle exports jumped 7.6% to 363,772 vehicles, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association said Friday...  Still, only a few manufacturers are looking to boost exports from Japan, as most auto makers are seeking to raise production overseas to mitigate the impact of the strong yen, which remains near a postwar record high of ¥75.94 against the dollar...  Last month, Honda Motor Co. decided to build a new plant in Mexico to produce compact cars, which tend to have narrower margins, making them less profitable to export from Japan. Nissan Motor Co. also plans to move the production of its Rogue small sport utility vehicle to a plant in Canton, Mississippi, from a factory in Kyushu, Japan...  

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Apr 9, 2011

SAFETY STATISTICS * USA / Wyoming - Frackwater truck safety effort helps

Average number of citations for every 10 vehicles inspected fell dramatically from last fall

Cheyenne,Wyoming -The Times Leader, by STEVE MOCARSKY -April 8, 2011: -- Efforts to educate truckers working in the Marcellus Shale industry seem to have paid off, with fewer traffic safety citations being issued and fewer trucks being ordered off the road...   Data provided by Pennsylvania State Police on Operation FracNET found that the frequency of safety violations for trucks hauling wastewater from natural gas drilling operations decreased since October 2010... The wastewater, a by-product of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is heavy in salts and contains trace amounts of toxic chemicals. Fracking involves injecting millions of gallons of water into the shale to fracture it and release the natural gas inside... Trooper Tom Kelly, of state police Troop P in Wyoming, attributes the decrease in violations to a number of factors including a willingness of trucking companies and their drivers working in the shale industry to attend seminars offered by the state police and familiarize themselves with state motor vehicle requirements... Troop P issued an average of 20 citations for every 10 trucks inspected in September and an average of 23.6 citations for every 10 trucks inspected in October but only 4.4 citations for every 10 trucks inspected in March...(Photo from blog.fleetowner)

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Mar 4, 2011

TRANSPORT STATISTICS * USA - Road miles increase, fatality rate at 60-year low

NHTSA: Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for people age 3 to 34

Washington,DC,USA -Land Line Magazine. by David Tanner -2 March 2011: -- Americans drove 3 trillion miles in 2010, a big increase over the previous year and the third-highest total on record, and yet highway fatalities remain at the lowest rate in nearly 60 years...  U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Wednesday, March 2, that the increase in highway miles, which was 20.5 billion more than miles driven in 2009, underscores the need for road and bridge work to update and maintain the nation’s infrastructure...  Nebraska had the biggest bounceback by state, with an 11.1 percent increase over 2009. An eight-state bloc from Texas to Kentucky saw an increase of 46.6 billion miles over the previous year, according to a Federal Highway Administration study...  FHWA Administrator Victor Mendez said the data will help the DOT make decisions about spending infrastructure money in the future...  As miles traveled increase, the 2009 fatality rate of 1.13 deaths per 100 million miles traveled was the lowest since 1950. Highway deaths totaled 33,808 in 2009, and despite a 9.7 percent decrease over the previous year, it’s still way too many... 


* N.A. - Surface trade rises 13.8% in December


Washington,D.C.,USA -Truck News -Mar 4, 2011:  --  Trade using surface transportation between Canada, the US and Mexico was 13.8% higher in December 2010 than in December 2009, reaching $66.5 billion, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the US Department of Transportation...  BTS reported that the value of US surface transportation trade with Canada and Mexico fell 2.2% in December from November...  The value of US surface transportation trade with Canada and Mexico in December was up 12.6% compared to December 2005, and up 48.6% compared to December 2000. Imports in December were up 41.9% compared to December 2000, while exports were up 57.7%...  US-Canada surface transportation trade totalled $39.8 billion in December, up 12.2% compared to December 2009. The value of imports carried by truck was 17.7% higher in December compared to December 2009, while the value of exports carried by truck was 10.4% higher during this period...  Michigan led all states in surface trade with Canada in December with $4.7 billion...


* USA - Truckload Index Shows Tightening Capacity. Weather, stronger demand constrained supply, Longbow says


New York,NY,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by William B. Cassidy -Mar 1, 2011: --  Truckload capacity slackened slightly in the last two weeks of February but remains significantly tighter than in recent months, according to Longbow Research...  That may keep upward pressure on truckload pricing in the first quarter...  The Wall Street research firm's weekly truckload barometer declined 2.8 percent week-to-week, but was still at a level comparable to last year's second quarter...  Year-over-year, the index was up nearly 80 percent, and has climbed 25.9 percent since the beginning of 2011, which indicates truckload capacity is tightening...  The index is a measure of the amount of available truckload freight relative to current levels of available equipment. It climbs as capacity gets tighter...  Other industry yardsticks also indicate demand for trucking is growing in early 2011, putting pressure on capacity in a period of severe winter storms...  The seasonally adjusted American Trucking Associations Truck Tonnage Index rose 3.8 percent from December to January, hitting its highest level since January 2008...  Spot market truckload freight volume shot up 62 percent year-over-year in January, according to the TransCore North American Freight Index, setting a new record...  In late February, truckload capacity was hardest to find in the Southeastern coastal states from Delaware to Florida, according to Longbow Research...   The firm's flatbed index rose for the seventh straight week, climbing 8.9 percent from the previous week to its highest level in the past two years...


* USA - Highway Driving Reaches 2007 Level


Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by William B. Cassidy -Mar 2, 2011: -- Vehicle miles traveled increased for 10th straight month in December, FHWA says... Americans took to the road in increasing numbers last year, taking advantage of relatively low fuel prices as increased confidence in the economic recovery... The nation's highway traffic hit its highest level since the pre-recession era last year, as Americans drove 3 trillion miles, the Department of Transportation said... Americans drove 20.5 billion more vehicle miles in 2010 than in 2009, a 0.7 percent year-over-year increase, according to the Federal Highway Administration... December was the 10th consecutive month of increased driving, as more Americans joined the economic recovery and enjoyed comparatively low fuel prices... A bloc of eight Southern states from Texas to Kentucky saw the greatest regional increase in December, logging 46.6 billion vehicle miles traveled, the FHWA said...


* USA - Trucking Leads Transport Hiring in February


Washington,DC,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by William B. Cassidy -Mar 4, 2011: -- For-hire carriers slowly rebuilding after deep cuts in workforce during recession. Trucking hired 11,000 workers in February, accounting for half of a monthly gain in transportation and warehousing jobs, according to federal employment statistics...  The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported transportation employment increased by 22,000 in February, while total non-farm payroll employment rose by 192,000...  That dropped the unemployment rate slightly to 8.9 percent but barely dented the total number of unemployed persons -- 13.7 million, according to the BLS...  Those added trucking jobs amount to a 0.8 percent increase month-over-month and a 2.5 percent year-over-year seasonally adjusted increase in hiring in the sector...  The for-hire trucking firms tracked by BLS employed about 1,266,200 workers of all types last month. The bureau tracks payroll headcount at about 110,000 carriers...  That number falls far short of the total number of motor carriers, for-hire and private, but still represents a significant portion of the for-hire trucking industry...  The February increase was the first uptick in trucking employment since November, according to the BLS data, which shows trucking jobs grew 1.5 percent in 2010...  Trucking's workforce is still 12.8 percent smaller than it was in February 2007, however, a sign of deep payroll cuts before and during the recession...

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May 18, 2010

Fuel Purchases * USA - Show where economy is headed

Los Angeles,CAL,USA -Today's Trucking -17 May 2010: ... Folks in trucking have known for years that the business is a leading indicator, but now a group of researchers in California based out of University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)’s Anderson School of Management has figured out how to use that very information to make money... What’s more, they’re using your fuel purchases to do so... The researchers learned they can predict the ups and downs of the national economy, by tracking credit-card fuel purchasing patterns the way a hunter reads bear spoor... In partnership with the fuel-card people Ceridian, the researchers produce the Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index (PCI), which can anticipate and track the federal economy by tracking OTR fuel purchases... On an hour-by-hour basis, the PCI captures data about movement in the construction, farming, development and retail sectors... The online magazine Slate wrote about the new index, and described the discovery of the tool thusly...

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Mar 30, 2010

TRUCK SALES * Europa - In Feb stabilise, down 3.1 pct

Stockholm,Sweden -Reuters, by Niklas Pollard & Johannes Hellstrom -March 26, 2010: -- European commercial vehicle sales fell 3.1 percent in February, industry association ACEA said on Friday, as the hard hit truck market stabilised but showed little evidence of an upswing... Truckmakers such as Germany's Daimler and MAN SE , Sweden's Volvo and Scania and Fiat's Iveco were hit by the steepest market decline in decades after the global financial crisis struck in late 2008... Demand has stabilised in recent months, but lingering tight credit to fund purchases of new vehicles and reduced demand for transporting goods has meant there is little sign of a return to the booming truck sales seen before the crisis... ACEA said in a statement new heavy-duty truck registrations fell 32 percent year-on-year in Europe, which includes the European Union member states plus the EFTA nations but excludes Cyprus and Malta, while new light vehicles rose 1.8 percent... (Picture from stralis.iveco)

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Jan 8, 2010

STATISTICS * Ireland - 2009 safest year on record

2009 was the safest year on Ireland’s roads since road deaths were first recorded in 1959

Dublin,Ireland -HGV Ireland -January 4, 2010: ... According to the Road Safety Authority, which has released provisional road safety figures for the year... A total of 240 people tragically lost their lives on Irish roads in 2009. This is 39 fewer fatalities compared to 279 deaths in 2008... “The biggest challenge facing us now is to change the culture of speeding in this country through enforcement and educational campaigns. The introduction of a network of safety cameras across the country in mid 2010 will play a leading role in tackling this problem,” concluded Gay Byrne, Chairman, Road Safety Authority...

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Jan 7, 2010

STATISTICS * USA - Factory Orders Improve for Seventh Time in Eight Months

The trucking industry relies on factory orders and shipments for much of its business

Washington,DC,USA -Transport Topics -5 Jan 2010: -- November factory orders rose 1.1%, marking the seventh gain in eight months, the Commerce Department said Tuesday... Bookings excluding transportation orders, which tend to be volatile, jumped 1.9%, the biggest gain since June... Durable goods orders, which make up just over half of all orders, rose 0.2%, while non-durables orders such as oil and food rose 1.8%...


* NAFTA Trade Decline Slows

Washington,DC,USA -Transport Topics -6 January 2010: -- The decline in surface transportation trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico slowed in October from a year ago compared with comparable figures for September, the Department of Transportation said Wednesday... Trade among the North American Free Trade Agreement partners fell 15.5% year-to-year in October, to $61.4 billion, compared with September’s 20.2% year-to-year decline, DOT said... Truck imports to the United States fell 9.9% to $21.5 billion from a year earlier, while exports fell 11.1% to $22.5 billion, a slight improvement from September... U.S.-Canada trade fell 19% to $36.3 billion, while the value of truck imports to the U.S. fell 15.8% and the value of truck exports fell 9.5%... U.S.-Mexico trade fell 10% to $25.1 billion. The value of truck imports fell 4.2% and the value of truck exports fell 13.5%...

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Aug 19, 2009

Statistics * UK - SMMT predicts truck price rise

London,UK -HGV (UK) -August 19, 2009: -- The latest van and truck registration data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), issued earlier this month, show 16,360 registrations in July and 247,611 for the rolling year... This is down 35.8 per cent on the figure for the same time last year. “July saw both van and truck registrations fall some 40 per cent on July 08 as firms continue to avoid buying new vehicles,” said Paul Everitt, SMMT chief executive...

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May 29, 2009

STATISTICS * USA - NA truck registrations lowest on record

Southfield,MICH,USA -Today's Trucking (CAN) -28 May 2009: -- New commercial truck registrations (Class 3-8) were down 40 percent for the first quarter of 2009 compared to the same period in 2008, according to the Polk Commercial Vehicle Market Intelligence Report... This is the lowest registration quarter since 1991, and for Class 8 models, March has been the worst month since Polk started keeping these records in 1985. These declines come on the heels of an overwhelming drop in demand... Last year, total registration of commercial vehicles was at 486,800. Registration was down in all fleet sizes and categories... The Canadian market dropped by 37.3 percent from the first quarter of 2008. The index indicates 2009 will see 48,000 units registered in Canada, which is about 42 percent lower than 2006 levels...


* NAFTA - Can-Am truck trade drops over 25%

Washington,DC,USA -Today's Trucking -29 May 2009: -- Surface transportation trade among the three NAFTA nations plummeted again -- this time by 27.9 percent in March from a year earlier... That's the third consecutive month of decline greater than 27 percent, the Department of Transportation reports... U.S.-Canada trade, specifically, fell 34.2 percent to $31 billion. The value of truck imports fell 26.8 percent and truck exports dropped 25.1 percent... Overall, truck imports from both Canada and Mexico to the U.S. dropped 21.5 percent to $18.7 billion, while exports fell 18.9 percent to $18.9 billion... About 90 percent of U.S. trade among NAFTA partners moves by land...

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Sep 4, 2008

STATISTICS * USA - Fed ‘Beige Book’ Cites Continuing Economic Sluggishness

U.S. economic activity, including trucking and freight transportation, was sluggish in July and August, according to a Federal Reserve report

Washington,DC,USA -Transport Topics -3 Sept 2008: -- The Fed surveyed its 12 regional districts in its “beige book” report, saying that the Boston, Cleveland, Atlanta and Dallas regions all noted falling demand for freight and transportation services, and that firms in those industries reported higher fuel costs negatively affecting their margins... In the Cleveland district, trucking industry hiring was limited to driver turnover, and any wage increases fell within industry norms, the Fed said... One real estate contact in Greensboro, N.C., reported moderate sales activity and was hopeful that business would pick up when a “large trucking firm moves its headquarters to the area in the coming months,” apparently referring to the recently announced impending move of Mack Trucks’ headquarters to Greensboro, from Allentown, Pa...

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Apr 11, 2008

STATISTICS * USA - DOT Transport Index Rises 2.7%

Washington,DC,USA -Transport Topics -9 Apr 2008: -- The Department of Transportation’s freight transportation services index for February rose 2.7% from a year earlier, DOT said Wednesday... The freight TSI was unchanged from January, following a 2.4% month-to-month increase the previous month, DOT’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics said... The February reading of 111.5 was 1.1% above the February 2006 level and 0.4% below the February 2005 level, DOT said... The TSI is a seasonally adjusted monthly index measuring the output of services provided by the for-hire transportation industries, including railroad, air, truck, inland waterways, pipeline and local transit...

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Feb 21, 2008

Carrier Operating Revenues * Canada - Costs up y-y in third Q

Ottawa,ONT,CAN -Today's Trucking -21 Feb 2008: -- The top 97 Canadian for-hire motor carriers generated operating revenues of $2.5 billion and operating expenses of $2.4 billion in the third quarter of 2007, both up less than 1 percent from the previous quarter, reports Stats Canada... The companies rated earn $25 million or more annually... On a year-over-year basis, operating revenues were up 5.8 percent while operating expenses increased 6.7 percent...

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Jan 28, 2008

STATISTICS * UK - Truck drivers slow to ask for training

When it comes to asking their employers for extra training truck drivers are among the shyest workers in the UK, according to government figures

London,UK -Commercial Motor/Road Transport, by David Harris -28 January 2008: -- ... A survey by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) found that 62% of transport employees are reluctant to ask about training. However, it also found that 38% of transport workers say if they do receive extra training it makes them more likely to stay with a company... Some transport employers also recognise this benefit, with 40% of those who do train their staff reporting an increase in staff retention...

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What freight recession? * USA - Truck tonnage spikes in December

Arlington,Va,USA -Truck News, by James Menzies -27 Jan 2008: -- Truck tonnage in the US surged a whopping 4.1% in December, following a modest rise of 0.9% in November... The December spike was the largest month-to-month gain since December, 2006. On a seasonally-adjusted basis, it's the highest truck tonnage rate since January, 2006, the American Trucking Associations (ATA) reported...

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