Trucks On Our Roads
Big trucks are the heaviest kind of trucks that are allowed on our roads. They are mostly used for long distance trips. As you probably know a truck is a large vehicle used for sending goods from one place to another.
Most people don’t know that we have the word truck in our vocabulary because of the word Trochos which means “wheel” in Greek.
Not surprisingly trucks have a huge effect on the condition of our roads. And because of their size it means roads get damaged. In the majority of countries with good quality roads trucks aren’t allowed to carry more than 50,000 kg.
Unfortunately trucks also pollute our atmosphere . A truck is legally heavy duty if it weighs more than 8 and a half thousand pounds.
You probably don’t know that a truck is apparently not allowed to legally emit the equivalent of around 12 cars. But often times when tested some trucks are emitting 10 times that amount.
Cars are the vehicles most effected in the cities and suburbs. Because traffic drives so close together a car can be very vulnerable to a truck because of the trucks size and weight.
Many people are actually afraid of sharing the roads with these large beasts because over 95% of accidents between a car and a truck end up in death for the driver of the car.
Something else that worries people is that because of air turbulence a truck can pull a car under it’s wheels in seconds or push the car away into on coming traffic.
But what should help to put peoples minds at rest is that because these beasts are so huge the drivers are often trained very well and tests show that because of their training commercial truck drivers are actually the safest around.
And statistics also show that accidents involving trucks have gone down over 20% compared to 10 years ago.
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