ATA Says Higher 2010 Crashes Are Not Indicative of Truck Safety Trend
On December 8, 2011, American Trucking Associations President and CEO Bill Graves urged policymakers to avoid jumping to conclusions based on highway fatality figures released by the Department of Transportation's preliminary report hat show an uptick in the 2010 figures.…
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Graves states that even with this increase, 2010 was the among the safest years on record for the trucking industry. ATA hopes that policymakers will avoid the "error of recency" by overemphasizing the newest data at the expense of the overall, long-term trend, which according to the ATA, shows improvement in overall highway and trucking safety.