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The funding for safety groups, the salaries of their chiefs

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With the exception of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, the main trucking safety advocacy nonprofit organizations have relatively small budgets.

All meet a general Better Business Bureau guideline for tax-exempt organizations, which says that program service expense as a percentage of total expenses should be at least 65 percent.

All but Road Safe designate large portions of their budget to paying top executives.

Parents Against Tired Truckers (PATT)
Program service expense: 84%
Total 2014 revenues, including interest: $135,437

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