Ringgold, GA., widow Cindy Whitaker lost her husband, brother and niece 2009 if a bucket truck head-on hit their vehicle.

Now, she urges tighter federal regulations for lorry drivers, even as the trucking industry statistics point to Federal Office, that America's roads are more secure than ever before.

Whitaker, security threw Coalition, their support in connection with the truck Tuesday behind the newly proposed safe highways and infrastructure protection act during a press conference in Washington, D.C.

The Bill would allow freezing current federal truck size and weight limits, not the operation of overweight truck and establish an enforcement program, the organization said.

The Coalition released survey results that said 74 percent of Americans against heavier trucks and 79 percent the maximum number of hours truckers every day can go.

But a spokesman for the American Trucking Associations hit the truck safety Coalition survey results, called oblique and misleading them.

The questions begin with a set or statistics from a safety advocate point of view before I posted the questions according to the methodology on trucksafety.org.

"This is a push poll of the worst kind, and proves that while numbers are not liars can figure," said ATA spokesman Sean McNally.

Bill graves, President of the American Trucking Associations, accused backers of the Bill for co-opting the grief of the Americans, who have lost family members in accidents "An agenda designed to our economy and hurt our industry, and benefit truck's competitors and well-to-do union." advance interests

TRUCK improved his fatality and injury rates has crash by 30 percent since the current rules were implemented in 2004, graves said.

The rate of the truck accident fatalities fell to 1.17 per 100 million miles in 2009, the safest year since the Government began tracking - the statistics in 1975, according to data from the Federal Highway Administration and National Highway Safety Administration.

But killed the truck safety Coalition published statistics show that 4,000 people still are injured every year and 100,000 more in truck crashes, according to Joan Claybrook, Chairman of citizens for a reliable and safe highways.

"Families and truck driver slaughtered will be on our motorways due to the relentless push the truck industry for greater, overweight truck drivers, which exhausted are operated and pressured meet unreasonable deadlines", said Claybrook.

Morgan Adams, a Chattanooga-based lawyer, accident cases, specialized in truck required restructuring drivers pay at an hourly rate, rather than by the mile as an incentive towards security.

"Lorry drivers are the last sweatshop industry in America," said Adams.

"Almost 20 percent of the trucks and drivers have a security breach every year", he said. "Two percent of drivers have alcohol and security violations."

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