{"id":696,"date":"2011-03-04T00:12:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T00:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/?p=696"},"modified":"2011-03-04T00:12:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T00:12:48","slug":"trucking-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/trucking-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Proof \u2013 DOT not concerned about Trucking Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Transportation\u2019s mission statement: Serve the United States by ensuring a fast, safe, efficient, accessible and convenient transportation system that meets our vital national interests and enhances the quality of life of the American people, today and into the future.
\nProfessional truck drivers have many \u201cdistractions\u201d that we must focus on while driving. Distracted driving<\/a> according to the \u201cofficial distracted driving\u201d government website is \u2013 taking your eyes off the road \u2013 taking your hands off the wheel \u2013 taking your mind off what you\u2019re doing. Professional truck drivers while driving need to keep their eyes constantly moving by checking their mirrors, and keeping a visual check on the instrument panel gauges for problems and listening for uncommon noises that might save thousands of dollars in repairs if caught soon enough. This of course \u2013 takes our eyes off the road \u2013 and our focus off driving. So how might I ask are truckers supposed to not \u201cdrive distracted and still do their jobs safely?\u201d<\/p>\n

USDOT wants to see electronic onboard recorders on all commercial vehicles. They \u201cclaim\u201d this will help to reduce crashes and over hours of service violations and all around just make the trucking industry<\/a> safer. But add to an already prodigious problem of available safe parking by allowing the closing of numerous rest areas for lack of funding \u2013 but give millions of dollars away to upgrade and build roads in and out of state parks and call this part of the \u201cRecovery Act.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. health care system contributes to more deaths than truck drivers<\/a>. According to Dr. Barbara Starfield of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 250,000 deaths per year are caused by medical errors. A surgical resident reported that in two-and-a-half years into a seven-year program at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, she was routinely working 110-130 hours per week, and sometimes worked 60-hour shifts. And truck drivers are the bad people here? Who needs to be regulated?
\nTop 10 Most Dangerous Drivers by Profession:
\nTruck drivers didn\u2019t even make the top ten list.
\n\u2022\tAttorney\/Judge
\n\u2022\tFinancial professionals
\n\u2022\tGovernment worker
\n\u2022\tBartender or Waiter
\n\u2022\tBusiness Professionals
\n\u2022\tDog Groomer
\n\u2022\tMarketing\/Advertising professionals
\n\u2022\tBarber\/Stylist
\n\u2022\tCoach
\n\u2022\tNurse
\nParking \u2013 the lack of places to park has been a problem in trucking for years, and it only will get worse. If the USDOT were concerned about safety, then they would give some of that money towards safer truck parking, and keep these rest areas open and build more of them. But out of 10,000 road construction projects and billions of dollars spent, not any rest areas or places to park a tractor trailer have even been considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Department of Transportation\u2019s mission statement: Serve the United States by ensuring a fast, safe, efficient, accessible and convenient transportation system that meets our vital national interests and enhances the quality of life of the American people, today and into the future. Professional truck drivers have many \u201cdistractions\u201d that we must focus on while driving. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}