{"id":82406,"date":"2026-04-25T07:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82406"},"modified":"2026-04-25T07:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:50:21","slug":"trucks-present-peril-to-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/trucks-present-peril-to-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Trucks Present Peril To All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From The New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The American trucking industry, which moves nearly three-quarters of the nation\u2019s goods, has devolved into a dangerous, dysfunctional system that threatens every driver on the road, whether you\u2019re in an 18-wheeler or the family S.U.V. In 2023, 5,472 people died in crashes\u00a0<a class=\"css-yywogo\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/injuryfacts.nsc.org\/motor-vehicle\/road-users\/large-trucks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">involving large trucks<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 a level of loss that would be unthinkable if it occurred in our skies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">The discrepancy in how we value human life based on the mode of transport is staggering. When the Boeing 737 Max crisis claimed 346 lives across two crashes, it triggered a global grounding of aircraft and brought the company to its knees. This was a necessary, indignant response to a failure of safety oversight.\u00a0We reach that same death toll on our interstates every 24 days.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1777103421\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Trucks Present Peril To All\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: The American trucking industry, which moves nearly three-quarters of the nation\u2019s goods, has devolved into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82407,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82406\/revisions\/82407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}