Antisocial truckers cause millions of damage per year
Posted on 09-02-2015 at 7:51 by CasperH – 54 Comments”
And all because they are too stubborn to hoogtewaarschuwingen in tunnels.
Last year tried the truckers nearly 11,000 times with a too high vehicle have a tunnel to drive through. By doing this, tunnels are as the Velsertunnel, Coentunnel, Drechttunnel and other tunnels added together approximately thirty times per day and automatically shuts down. A file resulting can the society just €135.000 euros in costs. Also the chance of rear end collisions is greater, but the truckers have there coat.
It seems that truck drivers warnings at tunnels ignore, because they assume that a safety margin is applied in the tunnels. By the warning to ignore it would the driver travel time savings. The damage to the tunnels in the tens of thousands of euros each time, it really goes wrong.
The reason that there are so many warnings to be ignored will also have to deal with the chance of being caught: there are only one or two times per month, drivers caught in that, ignoring the warnings. There is a total of €425.000 euros in damages to tunnels recovered from last year, but the actual damage is much higher.
A related message that we just reached is also worth a mention: TomTom and Garmin are being sued by victims of a coach crash in 2013. The occupants demands more than 13 million euros in damages for an accident with a bus that is not through a tunnel fitted. The devices that the driver used (one TomTom and one Garmin) warned people not (or not clearly enough) for the limited height. Only in America is it in people to the makers of the devices to sue in place of the driver, the bus company or the roadworkers that warning signs had been removed.
Our proposal: the warnings link to a system that doorrijders directly punishes. For example, by a set of crows feet from the road surface to show that the truck was still for the tunnel, a set of good tires will deliver. We still have a few times wayward truckers, but then they leave it out of their head the warnings to ignore. Do you have any other ideas?