more than 4 million accident-free miles. The Anderson County, Mo., resi-
dent has spent the past 34 years driv- ing big rigs for the retail giant. He logs about 3,000 miles per week hauling freight from Bentonville, Ark. to St. James, Mo. “I make six trips during each five-
day week and I’m home on the week- ends,” Hart said as he runs between the two distribution centers logging 600 miles a day over a nine-hour period. “I’ve been driving for some 50 years in all since I was 21 years old.” Hart stated it was his safe driv-
ing record that led him to Walmart in 1981—that and higher pay. To be considered for hire by Walmart, the minimum requirement is 250,000 miles without any preventable acci- dents in the past three years. And while Walmart’s trucking business gained headlines because of the high profile accident involving Tracy Morgan in June 2014, the company’s overall driving
record earned the American Trucking Associations’ fleet safety award in the fall of 2014. By industry standards, Walmart
has one of the safest private fleets on the road driving 2.11 million miles per preventable accident, according to the retailer’s website and data provided by FMCSA.
TRUCK-INVOLVED CRASH RATE DECLINES After the release
of data from the Federal Highway Administration of estimated miles traveled by large trucks in 2013, the American Trucking Associations calculated a 1.6 percent decline in the large truck-involved crash fatality rate in 2012. With 2013’s decline, the fatality rate has plum-
Trucking The facts tell the story
83,000 jobs in Arkansas — 1 in every 11 working people.
$3.5 billion in wages annually — wages that support Arkansas families.
$448 million to Arkansas in fuel taxes alone — funding to maintain our highways and bridges, our critical infrastructure.
The Arkansas trucking industry’s impact is felt everywhere. A strong trucking industry is a stronger, more competitive Arkansas.
meted 39.2 percent over the past decade. The injury rate saw a 34.2 percent decline over the past decade as well. “The trucking industry’s efforts
to improve safety on our highways are showing results,” said ATA President and CEO Bill Graves. “While there is still much work to do, we should feel good that because of the efforts of ATA and others in the industry, our high- ways are safer, even as our trucks deliver more goods all across our nation.” ATA calculated the
fatality and injury rates using the figure for truck miles traveled— 275,018,000,000
miles in 2013 accord- ing to FHWA—and the number of truck-
involved fatalities and inju- ries—to calculate the rates. ATR
Source: American Transportation Research Institute
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