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A driver is responsible for the condition of the vehicle they drive. You would refuse to drive a vehicle with faulty breaks. In the same vein, I think they should collectively refuse to trucks without proper security measures.



Brakes are mandatory, rails preventing people from ending up under the truck not it seems (in the US, in Europe they are). So, it is up to regulators to make the mandatory. And it is lobbyists preventing that, and those lobbyists are not working on behalf of truck drivers.


You're not really refuting my point, which is that the truck drivers should be working on demanding stuff like this. Lobbying themselves, or as a union require certain standards before accepting a haul etc.


This protects Others while brakes protect the Self....

The reason they care about breaks and not this is because this doesn't protect them specifically and so they don't give a shit, because they're raging narcissists.... As I have a feeling someone "in this room" is as well...




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