Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 22:49:35 -0500
Reply-To: Wesley Alden Pegden <wes@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU>
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From: Wesley Alden Pegden <wes@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU>
Subject: safety vs. profit. WAS: Re: Ideal Vanagon
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surely you're joking? Yeah, they'll be as concerned about safety as they
need to be to avoid any big financial worries, but in the world we live
in, "responsible", before "company", means as profitable as possible. In
some cases this means they'll want to avoid some big lawsuits and will
implement some safety features. In others (the majority, I might add),
the profit calculation might not come out in safety's favor. Hell, just
at the end of the summer, another worker was killed at the Ford auto plant
in Detroit by a falling piece of steel, as wokeres are made to work on the
ground under the pieces being moved by heavy equipment. I don't have the
exact numbers in front of me, but it was something like the 30th
on-site "accident" related death there in 3 years, at a plant where the
life expectancy is 60 or 65. Do you think that "responsible" truck
building companies never are willing to sacrifice safety for profit?
Maybe you're right, and responsible companies are just nowhere in sight.
Sorry for this rant---I'll take any further discussion off list.
later,
wes
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Claudio Cella wrote:
> Responsible trucking companies are NEVER willing to sacrifice safety for
> higher profits.
>
> Claudio Cella
> 87 Vanagon 7 pass.
> 90 Jetta TD
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Brodbeck" <gull@GULL.US>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 11:44 AM
> Subject: Re: Ideal Vanagon
>
>
> > On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Pensioner wrote:
> >
> > > Merling Sauce won GP races without ABS. ABS is for folks who want the
> state
> > > to raise their kids. Upgrade the brakes and learn how best to use em.
> NB:
> > > commercial trucks don't have abs.
> >
> > Most don't have ABS because the trucking companies have managed to fight
> > off the requirement. Trucking companies are always willing to sacrifice
> > safety for higher profits, as is shown by the large number of trucks that
> > fail the inspections they haven't managed to get eliminated yet. There
> > are *some* semis with ABS, however.
> >
> > David Brodbeck, N8SRE
> > '82 Diesel Westfalia
> > '94 Honda Civic Si
> >
>
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