Comments on: Spirit Truck Lines to be first fleet equipped with new Utility side skirts http://www.ccjdigital.com/spirit-truck-lines-to-be-the-first-fleet-equipped-with-new-utility-side-skirts/ Business solutions for professionals who run trucking companies and maintain equipment. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:16:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Gordon Alkire http://www.ccjdigital.com/spirit-truck-lines-to-be-the-first-fleet-equipped-with-new-utility-side-skirts/comment-page-1/#comment-518 Gordon Alkire Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:35:01 +0000 http://www.ccjdigital.com/?p=21180#comment-518 I do not understand why the government thinks they have to get involved in controlling the trucking industry and calling us unsafe when it is a fact that in the car truck crashes the driver of the car has been proven to be at fault 85% to 88% of the time. These figures are the same no matter who does the survey. Of course the ATA is not doing anything for the drivers as drivers do not contribute millions of dollars to them. The ATA is interested only in big business that pay dues ea year. When professional drivers leave the industry the void will be filled with less qualified drivers with little or no experience. In today's society we have shown that it is OK to not take responsibility for their actions resulting in poor performance. That is equated to accidents and incidents and that gives us a professional drivers a black eye. I do not understand why the government thinks they have to get involved in controlling the trucking industry and calling us unsafe when it is a fact that in the car truck crashes the driver of the car has been proven to be at fault 85% to 88% of the time. These figures are the same no matter who does the survey.
Of course the ATA is not doing anything for the drivers as drivers do not contribute millions of dollars to them. The ATA is interested only in big business that pay dues ea year.

When professional drivers leave the industry the void will be filled with less qualified drivers with little or no experience.
In today’s society we have shown that it is OK to not take responsibility for their actions resulting in poor performance. That is equated to accidents and incidents and that gives us a professional drivers a black eye.

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