Cause of fatal Greyhound bus crash in southern Illinois under investigation
An estimated 13 million trucks operate on U.S. roadways, and there aren’t nearly enough overnight parking places at rest areas, truck stops or elsewhere to accommodate them. Meanwhile, federal regulations require electronic monitoring that tracks the driver’s hours behind the wheel. Violations of “Hours of Service” regulations can result in fines, sometimes reaching thousands of dollars.
Had his night gone as planned he wouldn’t have even been there, he said. Cherno told The Associated Press that he had hoped to make it to Troy, Illinois, to stop Tuesday night, but was at the end of his allowable 11 hours on the road. “Drivers run out of time on their clocks and have to find a safe place to park their rigs, and in most cases truck stops are full or they do not have enough time to make it to another location,” said Michael Boston, president of the 35,000-member National Owner Operators Association.
Executive Director Zach Cahalan of the Truck Safety Coalition, which seeks to reduce deaths and injuries resulting from accidents involving trucks, said that before electronic monitoring, paper log books “were referred to as comic books commonly in the industry because they were fiction” and easy to falsify.
It isn’t known how many accidents nationally involve parked trucks. Studies in two states found alarming numbers.Last year, the California Department of Transportation released a study showing that from 2014 to 2018, 1,626 crashes in the state involved parked trucks, resulting in 131 deaths. A 2020 study by the Texas Department of Transportation found that from 2013 to 2017, 2,315 accidents involving parked trucks were blamed for 138 deaths.
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