Stop Telling Truckers their Lives Don't Matter Enough to have Equal Protection of the Law.
Stop Telling Truckers their Lives Don't Matter Enough to have Equal Protection of the Law.
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March 19, 2023 UPDATE:
According to USDOL BLS
- Workers in transportation and material moving occupations experienced a series high of 1,523 fatal work injuries in 2021 and represent the occupational group with the highest number of fatalities. This is an increase of 18.8 percent from 2020.
- Transportation incidents remained the most frequent type of fatal event in 2021 with 1,982 fatal injuries, an increase of 11.5 percent from 2020. This major category accounted for 38.2 percent of all work-related fatalities for 2021.
Worker characteristics
- Black or African American workers, as well as Hispanic or Latino workers had fatality rates (4.0 and 4.5 per 100,000 FTE workers, respectively) in 2021 that were higher than the all-worker rate of 3.6. Transportation incidents were the highest cause of fatalities within both of these groups (267 for Black or African American workers and 383 for Hispanic or Latino workers).
Still don't think #TruckerLivesMatter?
We are sending truckers to Twitter to chime in here: https://twitter.com/TheSBTC/status/1637528043542528001
Recent UPDATE:
This matter is now in the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.
The Mayor's arrogant legal position based on a preferential 'Commissioned for me, but graffiti for thee' policy must not stand.
SBTC has asked the City of Washington DC to allow the trucking trade group to paint a mural on a street outside of USDOT HQ. Despite the fact that one of the streets is closed to traffic, we have been told by the Mayor's office this is "not feasible."
Yet DC has allowed murals to be painted on the streets of DC in recent months declaring "BLACK LIVES MATTER" and echoing calls to "DEFUND THE POLICE." DC appears to be granting preferential treatment to certain "social justice" campaigns and discriminating against SBTC's race-neutral "occupational justice" movement. We believe this constitutes a violation of our First Amendment right to free speech and equal protection of the law.
Here is the data table for workplace homicides for Americans working in transportation from 2011 to 2017.
https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/work_homicide.xlsx
Line 1271 is the general category of "Transportation and warehousing".
If you add these up, its 291 workers in Transportation were murdered on the job over these 7 years... an average of 42 murdered per year... or 3.5 per month.
This problem has exploded during COVID-19 and social unrest. Truckers are now being attacked in the USA on a weekly, if not daily basis. For instance...
On September 14, 2020:
The day before, September 13, 2020:
The week before, September 9, 2020:
What's more, 2.4 occupants of large trucks are lost in accidents on our highways every single day according to USDOT's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration stats. So that's 876 per year or 73 dead truck occupants per month. That is a 30-year high as of 2018 according to NHTSA.
When we compare how many Black Americans are lost to homicide during confrontations with police, we point to this BJS report (Table 10)
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/ardppsrsm.pdf
Table 10 is the Number and percent of arrest-related deaths, by selected decedent characteristics and manner of death, June-August 2015 and shows 60 homicides of Black Americans for the three month period or 20/month.
If we combine both unjustifiable murders of workers in transportation and accidental large truck fatalities, we are talking about 76.5 deaths per month in our occupational justice cause versus the 20 per month pointed to by BLM in their social justice cause, some of which, by the way, are justifiable homicides by police.
Our cause therefore seems to have four times the intensity that DC is highlighting through the social justice murals it has "commissioned." The city should not give BLM preferential treatment and discriminate against SBTC when it comes to painting the street. Our cause should therefore be given at least the same consideration as DC gave to the BLM organization.
This week is National Trucker Driver Appreciation Week and we have been denied the right to paint the road during this time to make our point to USDOT and our elected leaders that #ThankATrucker is nice but taking action to protect their safety is even nicer.
I hereby support SBTC's request and the SBTC's Board of Directors' decision to sue the city of Washington, DC over this matter to protect the legal interests of SBTC members and America's 3.5 million truckers.
#TruckerLivesMatter
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La causa
March 19, 2023 UPDATE:
According to USDOL BLS
- Workers in transportation and material moving occupations experienced a series high of 1,523 fatal work injuries in 2021 and represent the occupational group with the highest number of fatalities. This is an increase of 18.8 percent from 2020.
- Transportation incidents remained the most frequent type of fatal event in 2021 with 1,982 fatal injuries, an increase of 11.5 percent from 2020. This major category accounted for 38.2 percent of all work-related fatalities for 2021.
Worker characteristics
- Black or African American workers, as well as Hispanic or Latino workers had fatality rates (4.0 and 4.5 per 100,000 FTE workers, respectively) in 2021 that were higher than the all-worker rate of 3.6. Transportation incidents were the highest cause of fatalities within both of these groups (267 for Black or African American workers and 383 for Hispanic or Latino workers).
Still don't think #TruckerLivesMatter?
We are sending truckers to Twitter to chime in here: https://twitter.com/TheSBTC/status/1637528043542528001
Recent UPDATE:
This matter is now in the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.
The Mayor's arrogant legal position based on a preferential 'Commissioned for me, but graffiti for thee' policy must not stand.
SBTC has asked the City of Washington DC to allow the trucking trade group to paint a mural on a street outside of USDOT HQ. Despite the fact that one of the streets is closed to traffic, we have been told by the Mayor's office this is "not feasible."
Yet DC has allowed murals to be painted on the streets of DC in recent months declaring "BLACK LIVES MATTER" and echoing calls to "DEFUND THE POLICE." DC appears to be granting preferential treatment to certain "social justice" campaigns and discriminating against SBTC's race-neutral "occupational justice" movement. We believe this constitutes a violation of our First Amendment right to free speech and equal protection of the law.
Here is the data table for workplace homicides for Americans working in transportation from 2011 to 2017.
https://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/work_homicide.xlsx
Line 1271 is the general category of "Transportation and warehousing".
If you add these up, its 291 workers in Transportation were murdered on the job over these 7 years... an average of 42 murdered per year... or 3.5 per month.
This problem has exploded during COVID-19 and social unrest. Truckers are now being attacked in the USA on a weekly, if not daily basis. For instance...
On September 14, 2020:
The day before, September 13, 2020:
The week before, September 9, 2020:
What's more, 2.4 occupants of large trucks are lost in accidents on our highways every single day according to USDOT's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration stats. So that's 876 per year or 73 dead truck occupants per month. That is a 30-year high as of 2018 according to NHTSA.
When we compare how many Black Americans are lost to homicide during confrontations with police, we point to this BJS report (Table 10)
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/ardppsrsm.pdf
Table 10 is the Number and percent of arrest-related deaths, by selected decedent characteristics and manner of death, June-August 2015 and shows 60 homicides of Black Americans for the three month period or 20/month.
If we combine both unjustifiable murders of workers in transportation and accidental large truck fatalities, we are talking about 76.5 deaths per month in our occupational justice cause versus the 20 per month pointed to by BLM in their social justice cause, some of which, by the way, are justifiable homicides by police.
Our cause therefore seems to have four times the intensity that DC is highlighting through the social justice murals it has "commissioned." The city should not give BLM preferential treatment and discriminate against SBTC when it comes to painting the street. Our cause should therefore be given at least the same consideration as DC gave to the BLM organization.
This week is National Trucker Driver Appreciation Week and we have been denied the right to paint the road during this time to make our point to USDOT and our elected leaders that #ThankATrucker is nice but taking action to protect their safety is even nicer.
I hereby support SBTC's request and the SBTC's Board of Directors' decision to sue the city of Washington, DC over this matter to protect the legal interests of SBTC members and America's 3.5 million truckers.
#TruckerLivesMatter
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