Truck Driver Death and Risk Data, Sourced and Dated

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Data

Dated records on driver deaths and risk, each number sourced.

Updated November 11, 2026

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Numbers about trucking deaths travel fast and lose their sources on the way. Each page here keeps the figure, the year it covers, who published it and when we checked it.

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Do truck drivers really die at 61?The number is everywhere. We followed it back to the studies behind it, and they measured something else.
Truck driver deaths by yearNine years of on-the-job deaths for heavy and tractor-trailer drivers, each year traced to the article that reported it.

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