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The Insurance Journal recently discussed a tragic highway death. A trucker fell asleep and fatally struck another person. Trucker fatigue is a tremendous hazard that is all too common on our highways. According to a recent survey, one-half of the truckers on our roads admitted to falling asleep while driving in the course of a year. That’s right – half of all truckers fell asleep while driving in a single year. That fact is alarming.
Despite the danger of deadly accidents from trucker fatigue, trucking company lobbyists have been pushing for rule changes allowing longer trucker hours. For a discussion about trucking industry efforts to make our roads less safe, please see our post Trucking Lobbyists Push To Relax Safety Rules. We have been following closely the push by industry lobbyists to change important safety rules.
Here are two major reasons for dangerous trucker fatigue.
Driver fatigue is a major safety issue on our roads and highways. Every day, we trust the drivers around us to drive safely. Most do. But, for a few trucking companies and their drivers, profit is more important than safety. In order to protect the safety of our families on the highway, we must keep and enforce safety rules related to commercial trucks.