97 - Listeners Sound Off About How Right-Wing Road Safety Policies Endanger Us All

BLAST THE RIGHT

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🗓️ 7 June 2007

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Today we'll follow up on an earlier podcast about how the Bush administration is putting you at risk on the roads, in the area of safety regulations applicable to truck driversThe listener comments we'll go over will provide yet more evidence that putting profit before the public good, is the right-wing way.Safety group and insurance industry research shows thatAfter 8 hours of consecutive

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0:00.0	Music
0:19.5	Greetings!
0:20.5	This is podcast number 97 of Blast the Right.
0:24.1	I'm Jack Cork from TheRationalRadical.com
0:27.4	Today we'll follow up on an earlier podcast about how the Bush administration is putting
0:36.6	you at risk on the roads.
0:39.1	The listener comments will go over, will provide yet more evidence that profit before the
0:44.3	public good is the right-wing way.
0:46.9	We'll also close the podcast with a new tune.
0:51.2	Let's get right into it.
0:53.2	My sources are the website of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, The New
0:58.1	York Times, and DemocracyNow.org.
1:02.6	The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's primary mission is to, quote,
1:07.6	reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses.
1:13.5	Close quote.
1:14.5	Fair enough?
1:16.3	Safety advocacy groups, along with the insurance industry, presented studies showing
1:20.7	that tired truck drivers caused a high percentage of accidents.
1:25.7	But the trucking company associations counted with their own statistics that supposedly
1:30.6	proved there was passenger cars that caused more than 80% of the accidents.
1:35.2	Fatigue truckers were supposedly responsible for only 2%.
1:39.4	First of all, if fatigue truckers are causing 2% of accidents, don't we want to prevent
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