Re: [VAL] Re: Water Tank Damaging Top of Truck

["Tom" <thomm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Trucks are not make nor are they required to build them to the safety 
standards of automobiles.  This may begin to change as people demand more 
safety from their vehicles.

Nothing makes auto/truck makers build a better product like loosing a BIG 
lawsuit.  $18 million may have caught their attention at least but it's not 
enough to make them retool and redesign.  Look at all the Highway Patrol 
full-sized Ford Victorias that got rear-ended which caused a bolt to 
puncture the fuel tank causing a massive explosion and the deaths of many 
troopers.  They couldn't redesign something so the bolt didn't pierce the 
tank and kill troopers?  Sure they could have!  But how much would it have 
cost Ford to retool, redesign, etc. to be "cost effective"?

Remember the GM saddle tanks on the outside rails of the frame on their 
pick-up trucks that killed so many people?  How many are still on the 
road -- better yet, how long did it take GM to STOP making them that way?

Bottom line is always MONEY - how much they'd lose because they had to 
retool and redesign.

Tom Meeker
WBCCI 5303