gmw photos wrote:
Actually it's the class eight trucks that are over represented in the crash and fatality statistics compared to the number registered vehicles.
So does that imply that class eight trucks have inadequate payload capacity.
Not on a per 1 million mile basis. Accidents on a per million mile basis is lower with commercial heavy trucks than on a per million mile basis with autos in general. FMCSA data bears that out. True, fatalities may be higher on average in relation to accident frequency, but that is simply a measure of the vehicles involved. If an auto with a family does something stupid that puts them under 80,000 lb (legal weight well within the vehicle capability) of truck and freight in an accident, they are likely to end up in the morgue. And the data also shows that 80% of those fatality accidents were the fault of the auto or pickup, not the heavy truck. It is extremely rare that the commercial heavy truck was loaded above it's rating.
