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.
Not surprisingly trucks also send out a lot of pollution into our atmosphere. A heavy duty vehicle is pretty much anything heavier than 8.5 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.
A worrying statistic shows that when it comes to accidents between a car and a big truck over 90%+ the people in the car die. This is why a lot of people are scared to share the roads with trucks.
Another thing that frightens people is that trucks have the tendency because of their size to pull a car under it’s wheels or push the car away because of air turbulence.
However it’s nice to know that even though these huge beasts can be so dangerous the drivers are often trained to a very high standard and according to some statistics show that commercial truck drivers are some of the safest drivers on the roads.
And another thing to help put peoples minds at rest is accidents involving trucks have gone down 20 percent compared to 10 years ago.
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