Aside from the ever-present risk of danger, there are three other main stressors truckers face. The following are three of the most common complaints truck drivers have about their work and their lifestyles. They may also experience trust issues at home due to the long stretches of time they are apart from their partners. Being on the road can be a lonely experience, leaving many truck drivers feeling isolated. Without any loved ones around to keep them company, many truckers stop caring about their health.
They may also not be able to find health care they can afford when they need it. Tractor-trailer vehicles, due to their massive weight, require a greater stopping distance than a regular passenger one. For example, if the latter would need no more than feet to stop after hitting the brakes, the former would take nearly double the distance — feet more precisely. Speed, mechanical readiness, as well as driver fatigue are also contributing factors to the stopping time, which are the common causes of these accidents.
This shows the consistency of large truck wrecks during that time of day over several years. Saturday and Sunday appear to be the safest days of the week for truck drivers. Back in , along with Monday and Wednesday, these three days of the week accounted for more than half of all accidents, with a total of 1, deaths. Heavyweight and long braking distances of tractor-trailers are the top reasons for fatal truck wrecks.
As compared to single-unit trucks, tractor-trailers are very heavy. A fully loaded trailer can weigh approximately 80, pounds. This is about the length of not one but two football fields, thus making truck disasters inevitable.
It is because immediate braking is much needed to avoid accidents or minimize the risk of injuries in a collision. Source: IIHS. As trucks are enormous, most deaths in truck collisions are of the passenger vehicle occupants.
And this is evident from the statistic above. While this is the leading cause of fatal accidents, resulting in the most deaths, collision with immobile objects and pedestrians are just as detrimental. Fire and explosion are also considered among the most harmful events. Those who do manage to get out of large truck crashes alive will most likely be subject to multiple injuries. These often include broken bones, neck, spinal cord injuries, as well as soft tissue and organ damage.
Burns is just as common, especially in cases of crash-related explosions, and can be rather serious. Truck occupants experience a much higher death rate in case of rollover than occupants of other vehicle types, mainly due to the specific features of the trucks. Single-vehicle crashes and casualties are much more common in semi-truck crash accidents, as the nature of the vehicle brings about multiple risks on its own.
Did you know that about every 15 minutes, a person is killed or seriously injured in an accident caused by tractor trailers, also called wheelers or big rigs or semi-trucks?
In fact, around , trucking accidents occur each year in the United States, with about 5, per year resulting in death. In ,. Sixty-eight percent of all fatal truck accidents happened not in cities, but in rural regions. Large trucks are much more likely to be involved in a fatal multi-vehicle crash than are passenger vehicles. Pay scale is the same or less of what was paid to professional truck drivers 10 years ago. Accidents continue to increase….. Way to go government….. I drive truck speed limits, and 18s pass me all the time running 10MPH or more over limits, even in fog.
No wonder some guys crash. But seriously 0. That industry is the mess, but hey, capitalism is what the government want, so let us just be a number, a dead one! Home Editor's Picks. January 11, by Jerry Hirsch , Jerryhirsch. Trucker deaths continue to rise according to federal data. Share this Finding truck drivers, especially as the current ages and more people are reluctant to spend time from home during the COVID pandemic, is the trucking industry's biggest challenge.
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