Truck Underride: A Hazard Hidden in Plain View

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Every year, across the U.S., hundreds of people are killed when their car goes under the rear or side of a tractor trailer. A safer design is available but trucking companies refuse to utilize it.

Channel: Autos & Vehicles
Uploaded: February 5, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Author: BBBloch

Length: 00:03:01
Rating: 4.21
Views: 201021

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Video Comments:
lrecollet (November 20, 2008 at 1:50 pm)
if you cant see the big ass of a truck and the hug sides of a truck, then you shouldnt be drivin a car at all.......like ffs ppl pay attention on the road
pfriverrat (November 19, 2008 at 11:37 am)
I am not a trucker, but i see many car vs. truck, and for some reason, the law, and the car drivers have no brains. Don't act like a fool around the trucks, and what do you have to worry about. all the videos here, show me the car was in the wrong. Why do we have to keep wasting money, to make stupid laws, to keep the stupid people alive. and I would like to see the Euro idea, tested with the conditions that you showed here in the states, 90 degree hits, faster speeds.
richardsrescue (November 18, 2008 at 5:33 pm)
good work Brandon
keep pushing for this simple safety feature on US trucks.
in the end the truckers will benefit from cheaper insurance as the average payout for an underun fatality is well over a million pounds regardless of how the accident happened,the European haulage industry has benefited from what basically is two pieces of steel channel welded to the sides of trailer or rigid..
BEFORE you shout me down about the costs.
I am a road haulier myself and would not be without these rails
Seminolesfan198423 (November 16, 2008 at 4:38 pm)
They can't regulate the major companies out of business, because they know with out us truckers taking it to their stores, it won't get on the shelves. Who's going to take it from distribution center to store? The soccer moms? The tree huggers? No and no! They will bitch all day on how nasty we are but yet at the end of the day we all know who really runs Americas economy! Trains can't do it! What do you have left? A bunch of trucks! Everthing in america goes by truck somehow, somewhere!
pressman95 (November 16, 2008 at 12:45 pm)
who would want to t-bone a semi? not me. and why would you want to follow one real close. bunch of dumbasses if you ask me.
AppleSouffle (November 9, 2008 at 1:10 am)
Thank you! This is a very well done and informative video.
teddybeareleventeen (November 6, 2008 at 2:49 am)
America doesn't suck, just some of the people that live there. Dickheads are a global problem.
asphix1976 (November 4, 2008 at 1:24 am)
2 things 1 its called a aero kit over seas and yes they work great and increase mpg as well 2 the laws here stop us from putting those on are trucks.
caleb505 (November 3, 2008 at 7:11 pm)
Trucks are getting side guards on the trailers now, I see them on a trucking company what looks like a European name on the trailer, The trucks are mostly green KW900L's maybe some of you have seen them?
Tr2u1ck (November 18, 2008 at 12:38 pm)
they dont protect
they just are there for fuel effiency