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[quote user="Dutchrailnut"] This trucking company runs over 100 trucks a day, sure they get citations. Sure they get reprimanded for having a truck not upto specs. 7 violations and one to have truck pulled off the road ?? sounds like media hype to me, betya if you stopped 100 automobiles at random you get a much higher violation and suspention rate. betya the FRA cited Amtrak way more on a average of one hundred cars or engines in same time ;-) <div style="clear:both;"></div> [/quote]  <o:p></o:p> That is a good point.  The average car driver has no idea how much police scrutiny is focused on large commercial trucks.  There was a bad truck-car crash in Eagan, MN about eight years ago.  A car full of people pulled into the direct path of a gravel truck traveling at highway speed, and all of the occupants of the car were killed.  The highway patrol placed 100% of the blame on the car driver for failing to yield the right of way.   <o:p></o:p> But you could not watch local TV news without getting the clear implication that it was the truck driver’s fault.  It was as if the truck was a bully.  They found one instance in the driver’s record where the truck driver ran a stop sign.  All of the news said the driver “blew” through a stop sign; the clear implication being that the driver intentionally ran a stop sign at substantial speed.  Whatever the driver did to get that charge had nothing whatsoever to do with the fatal crash that the news media were linking it to.
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