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At the same time, however, Collins has opposed rules that experts say actually would reduce the odds of serious crashes. Those rules could have required that Collins’ family business sink substantial money into new safety measures for its fleet.
Over the past 25 years, crashes involving truckers for Collins’ business killed five people and injured more than 50 people — including one woman who now needs around-the-clock care due to a severe brain injury — according to federal data, court filings, plaintiffs’ attorneys and police records.
Drivers and passengers who were injured in those crashes later claimed in lawsuits that truckers for Collins’ business have caused them to collectively incur hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical expenses. The figure the business has paid out is not known because the settlements it reached with crash victims have been confidential, as is common in such suits. Court filings in one suit state that both parties agreed to a $1 million payout from the business’s insurer. Collins’ business denied wrongdoing by truckers and the business itself in those cases.
ProPublica’s analysis of federal motor vehicle data from the past two years shows that Collins’ business has a higher rate of unsafe driving and speeding violations per mile than the majority of trucking companies with substantial mileage. The analysis also shows that the company’s recent crash rate sits around the median of similar companies, while the rate of injury from those crashes sits in the top fifth.
Safety experts told ProPublica that some of the technologies opposed by Collins, which include devices on semitrucks to limit their speed and sensors on big rigs to automatically brake in the face of a potential collision, reduce the odds of crashes leading to serious injuries and deaths. The country’s largest trucking trade group — a group that Collins’ family business is a member of, according to the company’s website — has supported mandates for those technologies.
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I think you’ll find they’re employed by American companies.
In my entire life I've seen one accident involving an immigrant truck driver whereas I've seen car crashes involving pissed off or entitled white people more often than I can count.
Truckers will lose their license if a cop gets something up their ass as it is. I've got a trucker friend and the liability and risk to your livelihood every single day is crazy. Make no mistake that they'd be taking away licenses from some of the best drivers on the road simply because they're brown... Something cops already do when they tell their dog to signal. It's pretty fucked when proving wrongdoing is so cumbersome to your racism that you'd rather change the proving part than the racism part.
He has a partial point. There are truckers out there who can't even speak english, let alone know required safety procedures. But that's not really the fault of those truckers, they are being taken advantage of.
Yet again the real villain in the immigration story is the employers.