Investigating fatigue among over-the-road truckers last year was frustrating work: we had to analyze not one, but several databases, all of them missing crashes and key pieces of information. But when we were done, special projects reporter Judy Thomas and I were able to piece together enough solid information to show the fatal consequences of truckers driving tired. In "Dead Tired," a three-day series that ran in The Kansas City Star starting Dec.
16, we reported that the long hours truckers log on the road contributed to hundreds of deaths every year.