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Message Subject FMCSA Forces Truck Drivers To Expose All Their Log Books Or Get Put Out Of Service Now
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Truck drivers get fucked over because somebody has to take the heat. There hasn't been a current technology safe class 5-6-7-8 truck on North American roads for 50 years.

Brand new 80,000 pound trucks so antiquated and dangerous that their brake controls are basically the same as what George Westinghouse designed for steam trains 150 years ago.

Cars have had tire pressure monitor for two decades. How many people are going to die this summer because of a 7 foot long 75 pound chunk of a truck tire that failed miles back was deposited in the road? The answer is more than just a few.

All so Jeff Bezos and the Walton heirs can make just a bit more money.
 Quoting: TheGodLikeBrianMoran

Coming up on 40 years ago, I ran over one of those tire shreds coming out of a tunnel on the PA turnpike. Because of the change in light brightness from dark to daylight at the tunnel portal, I didn't see it until it was too late.
I pulled over and looked under my car to see if I could see anything damaged and it looked OK. I drove about another 100 miles to my destination.
The next day, I was making a low speed turn from a parking lot onto a residential street and suddenly the steering wheel turned all the way to one end of its travel and the car made a sharp turn to the right. I was able to drive two blocks to my house by fighting the steering wheel to keep the car going straight.
The car had a broken upper control arm from the damage of running over the tire shred the previous day on the turnpike. If it had broken at any appreciable speed, I could have easily been in a serious/fatal accident.
I was lucky that time and a few other close calls since then. From close call episodes like that, I'm convinced there is a higher power that watches over all of us and not just the babies and drunks.
 
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