Narrative:

Pushed back tail west. All checklists accomplished and taxi clearance received normally. Cleared out spot 42. First officer (first officer) received the closeout and was looking over and resetting numbers. As I started to taxi; I noticed a fuel truck to the south east of the aircraft northbound and in my mind thought that it would be turning around us or giving way. Dfw is notorious for random vehicular traffic traveling in all directions and is a very high threat environment as discussed with my first officer when we taxied in earlier. As we taxied towards spot 42; it came to my attention that the fuel truck was approaching rapidly and should be turning or braking; I applied brakes gently and realized that the truck wasn't going to turn or stop; I had to apply maximum braking and bring the aircraft to an immediate stop. At this point the fuel truck noticed what happened and stopped immediately. I would estimate that the truck was about 20 feet outboard of the right wing tip and about 75 feet in front of it. I set the brakes and immediately called the flight attendant's (flight attendant) on the interphone. They all checked in and I explained what happened and asked if they were ok? They talked back and forth and ascertained that they were ok. Again I asked if there were any injuries and if they would like to return to the gate. They assured that they were ok to continue. The flight continued normally and upon reaching gate 15 in our destination and opening the cockpit door; the #1 flight attendant informed me that all three flight attendant's did indeed have injuries and would like to be removed from their sequence. I gathered information from them; contacted dispatch to report the event and then made sure that the flight attendant's were adequately taken care of and talked with their manager to explain what happened as they were still a bit shaken.in the future I will try to brief even more than usual situational awareness in the ramp area. Also; dfw needs to get better control of their ground vehicular traffic.

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Title: A Captain reported maximum brake application while taxiing at DFW in order to avoid a fuel truck which appeared would not give way. The truck did stop but flight attendants were injured during the hard braking.

Narrative: Pushed back tail west. All checklists accomplished and taxi clearance received normally. Cleared out Spot 42. FO (First Officer) received the closeout and was looking over and resetting numbers. As I started to taxi; I noticed a fuel truck to the south east of the aircraft northbound and in my mind thought that it would be turning around us or giving way. DFW is notorious for random vehicular traffic traveling in all directions and is a very high threat environment as discussed with my FO when we taxied in earlier. As we taxied towards spot 42; it came to my attention that the fuel truck was approaching rapidly and should be turning or braking; I applied brakes gently and realized that the truck wasn't going to turn or stop; I had to apply maximum braking and bring the aircraft to an immediate stop. At this point the fuel truck noticed what happened and stopped immediately. I would estimate that the truck was about 20 feet outboard of the right wing tip and about 75 feet in front of it. I set the brakes and immediately called the FA's (Flight Attendant) on the interphone. They all checked in and I explained what happened and asked if they were ok? They talked back and forth and ascertained that they were ok. Again I asked if there were any injuries and if they would like to return to the gate. They assured that they were ok to continue. The flight continued normally and upon reaching Gate 15 in our destination and opening the cockpit door; the #1 FA informed me that all three FA's did indeed have injuries and would like to be removed from their sequence. I gathered information from them; contacted Dispatch to report the event and then made sure that the FA's were adequately taken care of and talked with their Manager to explain what happened as they were still a bit shaken.In the future I will try to brief even more than usual situational awareness in the ramp area. Also; DFW needs to get better control of their ground vehicular traffic.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.