Youre describing a long gone past of the trucking industry. You can find eferences to the statistics involving trucks based upon federally funded studies at Virginia Tech from 2006 that countrasts your statements. Ill list a few. 1986-2006 is the dates covered in this survey 41% increase in registered large trucks,and 84% increase in miles traveled. Trucks involved in fatal crashes went down by 5% while large trucks IN fatal crashes down by 41% past decade alone large truck fatality rate down 14%