Interesting Facts About the Trucking Industry Continued..

For those of you who didn't get enough from our post last week, we continue with.....

Strange & Interesting Facts About the Trucking Industry:

6.  Are you Articulate?

Semi trucks are called by many different names depending on the region of the world they're located in...  In the Americas you'll hear "tractor trailers", "big-rigs", "18 wheelers", or "semis".  In Canada you could hear a "transport truck".  Australians may refer to them as "singles" and in Britain & Ireland they are called "articulated lorries" or "artic" for short.  

7.  Who's Afraid of the Big (Bad) Rig?

Semi trucks have been featured in many movies as the "villain" character.  Stephen Spielberg's 1971 feature, Duel, has a Peterbilt tanker truck as the villain of the film.  Stephen King's 1986 feature, Maximum Overdrive, also has big-rigs as primary villainous characters.  John Dahl's 2001 film, Joy Ride, featuring the late Paul Walker also has a faceless villain driving a semi truck that chases down the protagonists of the film. 

8.  Planning on Accidents

Commercial Trucks are involved in accidents much less frequently than people may believe.  In fact statistically trucks are 3 times less likely to be involved in an accident than a regular motor vehicle.  In addition, only 16% of all truck driving accidents are due to the fault of the truck driver!

9.  Uncle Sam Loves Truckers

Over 33 billion dollars a year is paid by commercial trucks in federal and state highway user taxes.  That's a lot of dough that goes into the upkeep of our roads and interstate highways benefiting not only truck drivers but the average passenger vehicle driver as well. 

10.  Got Your Rubber?

With an estimated 3 million Class 8 trucks registered in the US, and 18 wheels per truck we're looking at a grand total of 54 million truck tires on the road.  That's 5 billion, 400 million pounds of rubber!

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