Truck Driving Jobs

nickbtubas · #1 07-15-2007, 05:56 PM

Crete Carrier Corp
http://www.safersys.org/query.asp?se...%20CORPORATION

15 fatalities!!!!!!

Schnieder
http://www.safersys.org/query.asp?se...CARRIERS%20INC

45 Fatalities!!!!!!

J.B. Hunt
http://www.safersys.org/query.asp?se...RANSPORT%20INC

34 Fatalites

Swift
http://www.safersys.org/query.asp?se...RANSPORT%20INC

57 fatalities

i would post more but i have to head to KC tonight, more when i get a load home.

This is just food for thought and not a bashing

Nick

Sabine · #2 07-15-2007, 06:04 PM

I am most certainly no supporter of any big company, but I have to remind all of you reading this, that these companies have over 45,000 trucks combined.

The statistics are kept for about three years.

Any death is one too many, but if you divide this all up, that is a lot of trucks, driving a lot of miles in those 3 years.

boneebone · #3 07-15-2007, 08:04 PM

Here we go with someone opening up this thread again.

The bigger the company, the more power units you have, the more drivers you have = more chance of an accident happening.

Just because it was a fatality doesn't necessarily mean the driver was at fault. There are many variables that could have happened which we would not know by just looking at the report.

It is dangerous out there no matter who you drive for, so drive to survive.

Uturn2001 · #4 07-15-2007, 08:27 PM

In order to get a real comparison you have to look at the percentages.

A company with 20,000 trucks with 50 fatalities has a better safety record than a company with 5000 trucks and 45 fatalities.

Beyond that, what I really like to look at is how many OOS for various reason a company has. A high PPS for HOS could indicate the company does not care about HOS regs, or a high OOS for equipment could say that a company has a low priority on maintence issues.

countryhorseman · #5 07-15-2007, 09:29 PM

Be carefuly with the safersys scores! There was just a big news story a couple of days ago, stating that a recent audit of the system, only shows it to be 41% correct. Also, many states do not properly report data to the program.

As stated earlier, one death is too many, but SaferSys has no way of breaking out the fatality accidents were the fault of the truck or the four wheeler.

Many studies, including independent ones have showed anywhere from 70 - 85 % of fatality accidents involving CMV's have been the fault of the 4 wheeler. Also, CMV's other than class 7 and 8 trucks are also lumped into the equation, which throws things out or whack also.

Have a nice day.