Archive for September, 2009
Efficiency Safety Comparison Of U.S. Railroads And Trucks
These days everyone is talking about global warming and saving the environment. One way Americans can “go green” is to invest in and utilize the nation’s railroads. Railroads are far more energyefficient then their competition. Locomotives today get 80 more mileage from a gallon of diesel fuel than in 1980. As a result trains consume far less fuel than trucks to move the same amount of freight thereby reducing the emission of greenhouse gases.
Today’s railroads employ the latest technology that allows for cost efficiencies. Complex software is used to track railcar location and to determine the most efficient means to put cars together into trains thereby streamlining the system. Moreover sophisticated electronics onboard locomotives assess topography track curvature train length and weight to determine the optimum speed for conserving fuel.
Are Railroads Really Safer Than Trucks?
Relatively speaking railroads offer a safer alternative to trucks and should be used to transport dangerous materials whenever feasible. A semi truck accident involving hazardous material could prove to be an extremely dangerous situation. The transportation of raw materials by rail results in only about 14 of the fatalities and 8 of the injuries that trucks do per trillion tonmiles.
Moreover railroads have approximately 6 of the HAZMAT incidents that trucks have for roughly the same HAZMAT tonmileage. Semi truck accidents often occur in heavily populated areas. Finally railroads have approximately 21 of the HAZMAT incidents that trucks have that result in fatalities or serious injuries for roughly the same HAZMAT tonmileage.
Safety Measures In Place
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters recently announced new federal regulations requiring railroads to use the safest and most secure route for trains carrying the most toxic and dangerous hazardous materials. The railroad industry has also continued to improve on its own with many locations enjoying new rail track and equipment. Beginning June 1 2008 these regulations will require that railroads conduct a comprehensive safety and security risk analysis of its primary routes and any practicable alternative routes over which it has authority to operate.
The safety analysis will consider a minimum of 27 risk factors such as a trip’s length the volume and type of HAZMAT being moved existing safety measures along the route and population density. As a result it is projected that railroads will continue to be a more efficient and safer alternative to trucks and the number of semi truck accidents involving HAZMAT will decline.
About the writer: Christine O’Kelly is an author for 18Wheeler Accident.org an organization of legal representatives specializing in helping clients that have been involved in a semi truck accident.
Drive Defensively To Avoid An 18-Wheeler Accident
Most of us think the driver of an 18wheeler is a professional driver and you’d be right most of the time. However even if the semi truck driver follows all of the rules of road there are other laws that come into play such as mechanics physics and visibility which apply differently to cars. In addition although technically a professional driver they may not be professional when it comes to road safety and courtesy. An 18wheeler accident can result and most likely the car driver not the trucker will be injured or killed.
Do you drive defensively around an 18wheeler truck? If not you should! 18wheeler safety should not be taken lightly. Considering the limitations of those vehicles you need to drive defensively to avoid an 18wheeler accident.
Tailgating Is Taboo
Tailgating is something that every driver has done in his or her lifetime but the worst place to do it is behind an 18wheeler.
Even with many mirrors the truck driver can’t see you. Another reason is that you can’t see beyond the truck you’re following. If the truck driver is forced to suddenly apply his brakes because a car veers into his lane or for any other reason guess who could become a pancake dripping off his mud flaps? Yes the car tailgating behind him.
Stop Stop Stop
The law of physics comes into play when a 100000pound 18wheeler has to come to a stop as quickly as possible. Even with air brakes don’t expect a semi truck to stop as readily as smaller cars going the same speed. The forward momentum is too great to allow the much heaver truck to stop often resulting in an 18wheeler accident.
If a fully loaded 18wheeler is going 55 mph on flat dry terrain it will travel the length of a football field between braking and stopping. It’s like an out of control missal shooting down road and if you’re in the car ahead of this missal you may be involved in an 18wheeler accident. If you’re injured or even killed then the services of a truck accident lawyer may be needed.
Wide Turns And Road Hazards
Wide turns are a given for 18wheelers it’s a requirement because of the length of their vehicle. But even then a truck may turn even more widely than necessary. Stay back and always be alert for truckers’ turn signals and wide turns. After all it’s better to be safe than be involved in an 18wheeler accident.
Another road hazard can be a sudden tire blowout. Those 18 tires take a heavy beating while carrying loads of up to 80000 pounds. If a tire blows out it can hurl slabs of rubber like a cannon. You don’t want to be near such catastrophic missiles keep a safe distance to avoid such an accident.
The above factors don’t even take into account some semi truck drivers are simply bad drivers or rude. Just like car drivers they may become distracted or impaired by drugs/alcohol and if they are their margin for error is even more reduced.
You should treat 18wheelers differently than other vehicles on the road. You should always drive defensively but even more so when you’re around these large semi trucks.
That means use common sense no cell phone dialing texting or attending to personal grooming. Also don’t get too close whether you’re behind in front or beside a semi truck. If you decide to pass do so promptly don’t linger along side where the truck driver’s vision may be limited resulting in an 18wheeler accident.
About the writer: Christine O’Kelly is an author for 18Wheeler Accident.org an organization of legal representatives specializing in helping clients that have been involved in an 18wheeler accident.
Doctor Lets The Cat Out Of The Bag On Buying Cars 60 Off
World famous Dr Suzanne Gudakunst has just released her biggest “shocker!” ever …
> Her Secret to buying expensive cars for as
little as 300 a month!
Dr Suzanne made it big on both TV and now the Web but what most people don’t know is that she routinely buys exotic and luxury cars for as little as 50 of what car dealers force everyone else to pay.
She is able to do this because she discovered something NO car salesman ever wants you to find out about!
This Secret is so powerful yet involves doing just 13 things usually that will allow you to get ANY CAR you want including normal daytoday average cars you see on the highway to even the most expensive exotic cars such as Lamborghinis and RollsRoyces!
Most recently Dr Suzanne herself used her own secret to buy over 1 million worth of cars but where she saved 700000 using her amazing new breakthrough secret so she paid just 300000 and got 6 very pricey cars worth 1 million and each one was brand new and this year’s model!
But you DON’T have to be looking to buy these top and most expensive cars but can use her secret to buy any car even a middleclass Sudan or family vehicle.
So at this point it’s only fair to ask:
“How did Dr Suzanne discover this?
Simple really …
Although very rich Dr Suzanne makes over 45000 a day online alone Dr Suzanne is the kind of gal who doesn’t believe in paying “extra” if you don’t have to.
One day while shopping around for her first Bentley RollsRoyce she got “mixed feelings” from the car salesman trying to sell her the car.
She felt that he wasn’t telling her the truth a kind of “sixthsense” sort of thing.
So she began compulsively investigating all the deals she could possibly find elsewhere and online and in the process she started to see a clear pattern:
> People are being lied to and cheated out of
10000’s each and every time they buy even
a single car!
Dr Suzanne then got really “ticked off” and this drove her to an even DEEPER investigation far far further until she had a stack of facts figures and even methods that allowed her to get one over on the car dealerships for a welldeserved change!
Being a doctor and scientist naturally Dr Suzanne wanted to put her “New Discovery” to the ultimate test:
* * * A real “live” case! * * *
So she went out and applied her new found “Secret” only to discover that she could get a RollsRoyce for as little as 600 a month and a Lamborghini for as little as 1160 a month!
She also found that she could get the prices on these same kinds of cars reduced by as much as 30 50 or even by as much as 90 or even more!
Then she decided to see if this same “Secret” could work for what most people considered “normal cars.
And guess what: * * * The SAME Secret held TRUE! * * *
Dr Suzanne was now armed with what is now considered by experts at below wholesale buying to be the “Greatest Car Buying Secret” ever discovered!
So powerful and amazing it PROVED in her own life that she decided to share it with several close friends to see if they too could apply it successfully.
And the SAME THING resulted!
One good and close personal friend of Dr Suzanne’s is another Internet MultiMillionaire name withheld for privacy reasons and who wanted to buy a brand new Lamborghini Murcielago which usually costs 412700* *this year’s model.
After applying Dr Suzanne’s secret he was able to get it for:
o NO Money down!
o and just 1300/month!
Yeah yeah … I know I know … these people are already rich … so why should they get to use the advantages of her secret right?
The fact is: Regardless of how much you make or like most of us how little! it doesn’t matter.
As they say “a penny saved is a penny earned” so imagine saving 250000 on a super exotic car which means 250000 earned!
Or for the rest of us what if you saved:
o 15000 on your next car purchase Or …
o 400 a month on payments
These savings quickly add up and again BLANK amount saved means BLANK amount earned regardless of what you put in the BLANKS right?
So if after reading this email you STILL insist on being an “idiot” and paying FULL Price when you no longer ever have to then fine leave all the biggest savings to the few of us who are smart enough to grab up Dr Suzanne’s “Top Secret Car Secret!
Oh and by the way with the few of us doing so the car salesmen will have to screw someone else out of all the money that they are losing to us so that means “YOU” will be their next victim.
… Unless of course you happen to have a COPY of Dr Suzanne’s “Top Secret Car Secret” like we do!
So just to be generous I’ll give you the link** **But Shhhh! Don’t go blabbing your mouth all over the Web telling everybody else cuz we have a pretty good thing here as long as everybody else doesn’t find out about it!
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