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Trapped Under Trucks
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Coming from countries where truck transport is not allowed on Sundays - it's great. Means that if you're going with your family somewhere on Sunday it's very quiet on the roads. Also awesome for long distance driving, always plan those for a Sunday and the traffic flows much smoother. As for the idea that it moves the traffic to other days - no it doesn't, because a lot of that traffic wouldn't be driving on Sunday a…
Isn't this just a somewhat arbitrary benefit for people who have Sundays free? Lots of people have to work Sundays. It seems like a lottery that some people will benefit from and some will suffer from, for no good reason.
Some EU countries or regions thereof ban both truck traffic and retail trade on Sundays – and there aren’t many people that would be working on a Sunday outside of retail trade. The vast, vast majority of the population there has Sunday free.
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#83>An investigator with the local police department blamed the collision on the truck driver, who was initially charged with negligent homicide, though charges were eventually dropped I wonder why. Another issue is the size of trucks. The state where I lived: * Truck size was limited, large trucks were only allowed on one Highway. Goods were transferred to smaller Trucks for transport to factories. * Driving trucks on…
How is prohibiting truck transport on Sunday good for other road users? You'd be eliminating 14% of hours in the week, which means a corresponding higher density of trucks on non-Sunday days
That was the most interesting to me since Sunday evening is one of the heaviest trucking days of the week here. If you're coming back from an all weekend event on the Interstate it will be jam packed with big rigs.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is prohibiting truck transport on Sunday good for other road users? You'd be eliminating 14% of hours in the week, which means a corresponding higher density of trucks on non-Sunday days
Truck traffic is banned in several EU countries on Sundays and rural communities love it. Families in villages where the sole street is the tertiary road running through, don’t have to worry on Sundays about their children playing outside along that road.
Because their child will survive a collision with an SUV?
Quieter, sure.
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#85> The beefier, more robust rear guards would’ve cost an additional $127 each, according to industry estimates.
> They said there’s not enough research to support a government mandate, which would impose huge costs on businesses that operate on thin profit margins.
So thin that they can't afford $127 a truck; they are running a no profit charity out of the goodness of their heart and that pittance of an one-time amount per truck would push them over into red.
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#86I have always wondered why those trailers with the super low floors are not more popular... They look to be more aerodynamic, they can hold more stuff, and they would prevent the problems presented in the article. Maybe does it have to do with the fact that loading docks are already high, and this would make the loading process more cumbersome? I am not sure...
Loading docks are built to one specific height. If your trailer is low you will have to lift every package out of the trailer and onto the dock.
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#87> "The Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association, a lobbying outfit representing semitrailer builders, had little desire to make safer rear guards. In correspondence with the department, the TTMA said it would be 'far more practical' to force Volkswagen and other companies making compact cars to produce larger vehicles that were less likely to slip beneath a truck." Of course.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Truck traffic is banned in several EU countries on Sundays and rural communities love it. Families in villages where the sole street is the tertiary road running through, don’t have to worry on Sundays about their children playing outside along that road.
Because their child will survive a collision with an SUV? Quieter, sure.
A lot less SUVs in Central and Eastern Europe than in North America. But yes, some of the pressure on limiting truck traffic through rural areas on Sundays (or on some roads in general) came from a large amount of fatal collisions involving trucks passing through, whereas ordinary car drivers drive more cautiously through these villages.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup I remember my grandfather telling me long before I could drive: "You don't want to be dead right."
Similar wisdom about arguing with your wife: Do you want to be right or happy? /i
Another bit of worldly wisdom from (at least) Tom Magliozzi!
I wonder which of his marriages taught him that :)
* I mean this with all due respect. The world was a better place with Tom in it.
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#90> "The Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association, a lobbying outfit representing semitrailer builders, had little desire to make safer rear guards. In correspondence with the department, the TTMA said it would be 'far more practical' to force Volkswagen and other companies making compact cars to produce larger vehicles that were less likely to slip beneath a truck." Of course.
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Is this supposed to be satire?