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Re: OT but related: And So It Begins ... Congress Blocks Trucking Safety Regs
Author: A
Date: 12-08-2016 - 14:29
mook Wrote:
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> LATimes reports that Congress has blocked rules
> mandating specific timing and amounts of truck
> driver rest:
> [www.latimes.com]
> ety-20161208-story.html
>
> Article also speculates on other safety rules
> (truck weights, autonomous vehicles, etc.) that
> could be repealed and/or, where states have regs,
> preempted. Looks like the current (indirect)
> limits on truck competition for railroads may be
> gone before long.
It's long past the time when the Feds got rid of
the revenue enhancers the states call "safety rules."
If regular motorists had to live up to the rules the
truckers already have to observe, the highways would
be a lot safer.
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> LATimes reports that Congress has blocked rules
> mandating specific timing and amounts of truck
> driver rest:
> [www.latimes.com]
> ety-20161208-story.html
>
> Article also speculates on other safety rules
> (truck weights, autonomous vehicles, etc.) that
> could be repealed and/or, where states have regs,
> preempted. Looks like the current (indirect)
> limits on truck competition for railroads may be
> gone before long.
It's long past the time when the Feds got rid of
the revenue enhancers the states call "safety rules."
If regular motorists had to live up to the rules the
truckers already have to observe, the highways would
be a lot safer.
