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i'm 46 yr old male. *** i drive over our roads, i offten see some driven very unsafe. its a chance ffor me to maybe make a different in someone living or dying. these driver are one there job and have alot of safty comcerns in controlling those truck and trailers.these drivers have your safty to be concerned with cause they know the damage that thruck will do if it get out of controll. most of us will be home well before that driver.let respect his job and. theres tomany accidents happenning that can be proved if we all look out for one another.am i right about it??
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Im sorry but its difficult understanding your question. but it seems to be about truckers and their driving habits. Im a truck driver with 19+years over the road, 1,750,000 accident free miles. Generally speaking, Truck drivers are more safe than the casual operator of a standard car. When you look at the statistics alone, each year that I drive, (or anyother trucker) I put ABOUT100,000 miles on that truck. Thats PER YEAR. Most people trade in cars before they get that many miles on them. Most people bang up their fenders, total their car, scratch their paint, what ever, an average of once every 20,000 miles. or once every 2 years. Truckers drive about 20,000 miles in a matter of 2 1/2 months... without incident. Now.. lets add the two together... there are about 3 million trucks out on the road at any given time. Thre are about 95 million cars out on the road during that same time. If the cars who get in accidents on average of every 2 years are due for their accident, thats about 47.5 million cars due this year. Now.. some are just fender benders.. some just scratched paint.. so let say just 10% of the cars that are getting in accidents this year are gonna be serious accidents... thats still 4.75 million cars. On the other hand... Truckers get in accidents once every 200,000 miles on average... or once every 2 years ... but... if only 1/2 of us are due for an accident this year, thats only 1.5 million of us.. and if we use the same percentages as for cars, then that number becomes 150,000 or 10% in a serious accident, well.. lets look at what we have... 4.5 million cars gonna get totalled.. 150,000 trucks. the odds are overwelmingly in YOUR favor. As is Usually the case.. in any accident involving a car and a truck, if you wind back history a few moments before the collision, its usually because the car did something stupid that CAUSED the wreck in the first place.What age group/nationality causes the most auto accidents?
I suggest you respect those big trucks and stay out of their blind spot. If you are behind them, make sure you can see their mirrors..if you can't, then the trucker can't see you. If you are beside them chances are they can't see you. If you are going to pass the truck, don't do it unless you can see their both of their headlights in your rear view mirror.My dad really traumatized me this morning and I still feel bad sniff sniff?
To the first answerer...
Cars CAUSE the wrecks huh??
What about the truckers who purposefully TRY to take the life of someone driving a car? I had that happen to me once. I was commuting to work in the right lane at the posted speed limit (65mph) when the trucker who was BEHIND me, pulled up right beside me in the left lane. Next thing I saw was a truck moving over into my lane with me in it. The trucker never signaled that he was changing lanes. I didn't even realize what was happening until the truck's right front tire was in my lane and the truck just kept on moving over. I did the only thing I could do and hope to survive this...pull over as far as possible onto the shoulder while slamming on the brakes. As soon as I got my car stopped that trailer passed my car with only 2 inches to spare and the side of my car was nearly scraping the concrete wall. You know there are bad truck drivers out there just as there are bad car drivers.
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