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The problem of trucking is the nature of the work rules & compensation. The driver is the one squeezed from every direction. Nearly all the risk (not just safety) devolves onto him.
The nature of the comment above about 650 versus 500 miles is that unthinking people make the job worse. Like, rolling past the stop line when coming to a larger road. One may be behind the "curb line" but one is now well within the intersection by being ahead of the stop sign. It's not legal, everyone does it (blah, blah) but the truck driver must react to it, every time, without fail. That cuts the time/distance equation if nothing else. The driver might not slow down, but he sure can't grab the next gear on the acceleration stair either. Chips away at the days time/distance, it does, with this one example of a great many.
That one can't be bothered to think of their actions having an effect on others is what was being referenced.
Being paid by the mile to do this work is at the heart of the problem.
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