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From: [e-mail] (Lee C. Brink)
Subject: Re: Dangerous Truck Safety Proposals
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In-reply-to: [e-mail]'s message of Wed, 14 Oct 1992 00:25:37 GMT
Organization: Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse, NY
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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 08:07:25 EDT
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What no one tells you is that the DOT keeps track of the number of hours driven
by a log book WHICH THE DRIVER HIMSELF FILLS OUT.  I used to deliver medicine
in northern New York State, and I knew many truckers who had to drive way
over the DOT limit (For various reasons.  The usual response to my questions
was "company orders to get from point a to point b in a ridiculously small
amount of time) and then forged their log books to make it look like they
had followed DOT rules.

Add to that the fact the DOT checkpoints (At least in NY) are few and far
between, and also that truckers report these checkpoints via CB for people to
avoid them, and it's a wonder why even more people aren't killed.

 Lee

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