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

Now it is pushing for stricter federal regulations for lorry drivers, even as the trucking industry statistics show on Federal Office that America's streets are safer than ever before.

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

The Bill would freeze the current limits for the Federal Republic truck size and weight, truck prohibit the operation of overweight and establish an enforcement program, said the organization.

The Coalition published survey results, said 74 percent of Americans against heavier trucks and fell 79 percent that can drive truck driver by reducing the total number of hours in every day.

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 the questions according to the methodology, posted on the 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 the bill sponsor to co-opt the grief of the Americans, who have lost family members in accidents ", designed to hurt our economy and our industry, to an agenda, and take advantage of truck's competitors and well situierten interests to promote union."

TRUCK improved his death and injury rate 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 started 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 are still every year and 100,000 more are violated in the truck crashes, according to Joan Claybrook, Chairman of citizens for a reliable and safe highways.

"Relentless push for larger families and lorry drivers will be slaughtered are on our highways as a result of the trucking industry, truck operated overweight by drivers that are exhausted and under pressure, to meet unreasonable deadlines," Claybrook said.

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

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

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

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