(Page 3 of 4) Increase in Accidents Raises Safety Questions : Image of Truckers Travels Bumpy Road March 31, 1986|JOHN KENDALL | Times Staff As a representative of the independents, Mike Parkhurst, editor and publisher of Overdrive, a Van Nuys-based trucking magazine, is an outspoken advocate of full deregulation of the trucking industry. He ridicules the idea that a truck safety problem has been created by what he calls quasi-deregulation. He maintains that the larger trucking outfits, their industry associations and the Teamsters Union have played on fears about safety to give small trucking firms and owner-operators a black eye. My point is that there seems to be a trend lately to blame any rise in truck accidents on deregulation, Parkhurst told The Times. The only thing that regulation did over the years was to keep people from hauling freight that wanted to haul freight. He rejects suggestions that independent operators are cutting back on maintenance and the margin of safety because they find themselves in a competitive squeeze. He questions the motives of the California Trucking Assn., charging that the CTA is running scared because of a loss of membership.
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