The Big Beasts Called Trucks
Welcome. The heaviest and largest trucks on our roads are known as “big” trucks. It’s common knowledge that trucks are those massive vehicles used to take goods from one part of the country to another.
You probably wont know that the word truck is derived from the Greek word “Trochos” meaning “wheel”.
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.
Big trucks are legally allowed by the government to emit as much pollution as 12 cars but the truth is that most big trucks emit a lot more than that. Some as much as 200 times more pollution than a car.
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.
Unfortunately a lot of people are frightened when they encounter trucks on the road because over 98% of collisions between cars and trucks end in death for the travellers in the car.
Because of their size trucks cause air turbulence that can either suck a car in under it’s wheels or push the car away. Either of these could could cause a very serious accident.
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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