Thinking back just over the last 6 months, destruction caused by my fleet almost always boils down tooOriginally Posted by Scotty
Mobile phone usage (this is the #1 by a very big margin), mostly on bigger dual carrigeways and motorways when the truck is plodding along on cruise control and driver gets bored. Real trucks (class 1) almost all have bluetooth these days so we are talking internet and SMS not voice calls.
Inexperienced drivers (industry has a manning crisis, with most firms a licence with wet ink still guarantees a job), usually stuff like bridge strikes or minor bumps while reversing/junctions/lane changes.... they tend to forget the height or underestimate the length.
Car drivers doing dumb ****, wedging in to gaps, overtaking dangerously or just plain old not looking and driving in to the truck (which is so common it's almost funny).
#1 by a long, long, long shot though is phone usage.
Falling asleep is pretty rare these days. It's harder than it was in the past to run properly bent and ignore drivers hours to cause that level of fatigue and most tractor units made in the last 3 years have various warning systems if they detect the unit drifting from the lane or getting too close to whatever is infront, some of these warning systems make rape alarms seem unobtrusive, some of the latest ones are active so will brake or correct the truck.
The UK allows double deck trailers which are a ridiculously dangerous, stupid invention that cause alot of accidents as well (rest of the EU does not allow them). They are inherantly unstable, mobile hazards which account for the majority of trailers you see tipped over on the road, or wedged under bridges. A real case of putting profit over safety.
