摘要: |
Availability of cheap-or better yet, free-truck parking continues to plague the industry. A truck driver can easily spend over $5,000 annually to pay for overnight parking. It's also becoming a safety factor. Last summer, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) began investigating a Greyhound bus that crashed into three tractor-trailers parked on a rest area ramp in Illinois along Interstate 70 near St. Louis. Three people were killed. The crash occurred around 2:00 a.m. near the entrance to the Silver Lake Rest Area along I-70 near St. Louis, where the bus was headed. "Rest area safety is one of the issues that will be a part of this investigation," NTSB Safety Board member Tom Chapman said after the crash. "We don't know enough to be able to say with certainty that that's what occurred, but that's certainly one of the issues that we'll be looking at." |