28 Replies to “It’s Like A 737 Jet Crashes Everyday In America…”

  1. How can one spend millions to acquire a $200K per annul job, and there is the crux of this problem, politicians are bought and paid for by lobbyists for industry.

    1. Someone screwed up.
      They did allow this absurd opinion piece to run, which claims the Trump administration is penalizing institutions of higher learning in order to combat “… independent thought, a commitment to truth even when it’s inconvenient and a focus on the creation of truly democratic citizens.” As if Yale, the subject of the article, is gleefully spreading “independent thought” with a staff of whom less than 3% are Republican, and 27 fields of study have no Republican educators at all.

      https://archive.is/mcEl2

      This piece describes how “independent thought” is actually treated at Yale and 7 other institutions of higher learning.

      https://freebeacon.com/campus/video-watch-what-keeps-happening-to-conservative-speakers-at-elite-colleges/

    2. If you read to the end of the article, you will note the blame is placed on de-regulation … which is a cornerstone of the Trump Admin. Here is where I no longer slavishly agree with each and every thing ever done under the umbrella of Trump. Because trucking should never become the Wild Wild West … err East. There is a public duty to protect public safety. Some degree of regulation is necessary.

      Sorry Free Market absolutists. But there actually IS a need for an appropriate level of government and regulation. Consider the necessary trucking regulations as equivalent to Law Enforcement. The Left want to defund the Police, which gets people killed … and evidently … Trump defunded Trucking regulations, which is getting people killed. Neither one serves the public’s best interest.

      The REAL problem is $$$ … and the pressure campaigns by DC Lobbiests who goad and PAY $$$ our Congress to do stupid things. And then I could go on and talk about how CHEAP trucking is just as responsible for the destruction of Retail as is Big Box stores. Amazon survives on cheap trucking. But I’ll save that for another diatribe.

      1. exactly kj, the regulations under the microscope are related to vehicles weighing 10 to 20 tons.
        travelling at highway speeds imparting them with inertia equilavent to 5,000 tons.
        not whether someone used the correct number of nails in a 2X4 in house construction etc.
        20 years ago, l dont know the rules now, but despite not being licensed l was permitted to do electrical wiring as long as the journeyman was on the job. l refused to do anything unless l knew how from experience or inquiries to the point *everything* l did that got inspected passed 1st time.
        my impression of trucking in north america it has been targeted for takeover by the mob or something.

    1. This article … based on a study by The Buckley Institute … claims at the end that William Buckley would be amazed to see all the conservative WINNING that came as a result of his campus crusade spreading the gospel of conservatism. Uh … Dear Buckley Institute; ALL that conservative WINNING has been engineered by Trump and his MAGA followers. The National Review … Buckley’s baby … LOATHES Trump. Hates Trump. and by extension all his idiot [sic] MAGA followers. According to The National Review … “we don’t know what TRUE conservatism is”. Pssst … yes we do. And you aren’t it.

      https://www.nationalreview.com/tag/donald-trump/ … yeah The National Review HATES Trump as virulently as AOC.

  4. Nothing in the NYT editorial mentions the predominance of South Asians in the transportation industry. From cabs to 18-wheelers, these vehicles are driven by people brought into Canada and the US by their gudawara, or temple, which bankrolls their training and often their acquistion of a cab or tractor-trailer. The fake trucking schools busted by the American transportation secretary are allowed to flourish in Canada because nobody wants to seem racist. Also, South Asians are a huge voting bloc, especially in Surrey, BC and Brampton, Ontario. I have suggested to CBC news director Brodie Fenlon (brodie.fenlon@cbc.ca) that this is a story worth covering but, not surprisingly, nothing but crickets from the Corpse. Be careful on the highway. That semi coming at you may be driven by someone whose grasp of English is slim, and who must drive like the wind to pay back his debt.

    1. Excellent point! The article cites statistics on Black and Latino drivers … but that’s it. Leaving the reader to imply that the remaining (vast majority) of drivers are bumfkcu whiteys … trying to break into the middle class without a learned degree.

      No … a huge chunk of the drivers are foreigners coming to do … the driving that Americans (and Canadians) just won’t do [sic]. Yeah, the article wouldn’t touch the immigrant third rail with a 10ft pole. Which is why Western Nations continue to be invaded.

      1. On on hiway 3 eastbound today. Roads clear from Lethbridge to within eyesight of Taber, speed a buck 20. Last 3 miles into Taber, snow & ice on roads, prudent speed 70k. 1/4 mile into the snow & ice there’s a tractor/sea can combo jack knifed in the median. Tracks indicated he came from the granny lane hard across the hammer lane & into the rhubarb. Driver’s brown. Somebody was playing a video game or didn’t bother slowing down when the roads turned icy or, or, or…

        Typical.

        1. You drive like me … skilled and swift. Don’t get me started on Driver screen time. Fortunately for me … it’s only been an annoyance waiting at a traffic light while some d-bag scrolls for ‘likes’ or something … and that’s at a dead stop. I certainly don’t want to be anywhere near these Idgiots when they’re doom scrolling at 75mph

  5. And as awful as that is – how many 10s of thousands of accidents that dont include fatalities – just destruction of the truck and other vehicles/overpasses/building etc.
    How are these carriers still getting insurance – or getting paid out?
    Has the insurance industry been advised to just pay out and carry on.
    So many of these drivers cannot speak or read english. There is ZERO chance they passed any sort of Class 1 qualification.

  7. I drove an hour twice a day on Hwy 401 last week and quite a lot over the last year.
    Often as many or more trucks than cars.

    The swervers are the scary ones.
    Are they drunk, sleepy, texting, pissing in a bottle or jerking off?
    Or a low IQ incompetent?

    I had a pre-dawn semi swerving across both lanes, rumble strip to rumble strip, on Hwy 416 on Monday.
    Just gotta time the pass and stomp on it.

    1. I had a pre-dawn semi swerving across both lanes, rumble strip to rumble strip, on Hwy 416 on Monday.
      Just gotta time the pass and stomp on it.

      That’s my constant strategy on the CA highways … drive AWAY from every big rig I encounter. However, that usually means maneuvering around a giant knot of traffic surrounding the big rig … because people are afraid to pass the truck … or are just stupid drivers who cluster around the big rigs. I’m going with the latter.

  8. The title is incorrect.

    NOW:
    It’s Like A 737 Jet Crashes Every *Month* In America…

    (per the article text)

    1. I noticed the same error. Thanks for clarifying. But every month is still bad-enough.

  9. How many people are killed in America by highly trained and experienced doctors?

    Relative risk isn’t hard to comprehend.

    1. Good point, IIRC, medical mistakes are the 3rd leading cause of death in the U.S.
      But I think you meant “absolute risk.” The example is from Dr. William Davis:
      5000 subjects took a statin, 5000 took a placebo. Three years later, 3.0% of those on a placebo had a heart attack, vs. 1.9% on the statin. The absolute risk reduction is 3.0 – 1.9 = 1.1%. In other words, 11 people per *thousand* were helped by the statin. The relative risk reduction is 1.1 divided by 3.0 = 37%, which to the uninitiated sounds like 37 people per *hundred* were helped by the statin. Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

  10. I don’t know about down in the USA, but up here in Canuckland, I notice that the name of ‘Singh’ is often featured in transport truck accidents. Recently a mother and child were killed by a collision due to a ‘Singh’ playing games on his phone while driving. Yup, I guess I am a racist for making this comment.

    1. Singh Trucking, Gill Trucking, Dhaliwal Trucking and assorted variations of these 3, seem to be a popular company name around the Edmonton area. I can imagine in Surrey, much more so. Oh, and the urban legend is true…..many of these said companies have cut out the floor boards in their Kenworths so that Deepak can drop a deuce while Ramesh takes the wheel.

        1. Lovely! Just E’ffn. lovely!!
          How long before there are online plans to bypass the tank and the heater and the rest of the technology and just shit on the road!
          Those deposits won’t attract any visits by varmints will they. And about the swerving to miss those aforementioned deposits?
          Hmmmmm, about those car washes

    1. One thing not mentioned in the article is that the removal of sulfur from diesel to comply with newer emission standards reduced the lubricating effect of the fuel. Thus the sulfur is removed, which requires more stringent refining, and then other additives that restore lubricity must be added. Wait until the Biden mandated interlocks come into play on new cars that people already can’t afford.

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