Truck Accidents Slightly Up But Who is Really at Fault Lance Rants

So often we see misleading headlines such as; Truck Accidents Up in 2005 or some such thing. But not only are these articles misleading and the data skewed, it is borderline criminal and completely bogus information. In fact 56% of the time the car or Four-Wheeler is totally at fault, not the 18-Wheeler Professional Truck Driver.Indeed if you read the fine print of these Department of Transportation studies you will see that 75% of the time the main reason for the accidents major cause was the cars fault and that only 25% of the time it was the trucks fault.

Additionally 19% of the time the truck was somewhat at fault, meaning the commercial truck driver could have avoided the accident with better care.Now then let us also consider that in a robust economy there are more trucks on the road than ever before and with all the windfall tax receipts from fuel the Department of Transportation is doing a lot more construction and thus that added congestion puts trucks on the road for more hours than usual.For our media to purport that trucks are not safe is simply BS. Automobile drivers need to stop being in such a hurry and drive more responsibly in the "no zone", pay more attention to their driving than all their cool new electronic toys and stop feeling so safe because they think they are in a big bad 7,000 pound SUV. Trucks often way in at over ten times that much or more, so let's get real on these negative truck articles, you irresponsible liberal scum writers.

Take you BMW and shove it up your butt.

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By: Lance Winslow