The DOT is taking public comments on their four-year plan for the nation’s transportation and infrastructure. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said posted that “developing and implementing our strategic plan is an important step in helping [it] address key priorities that represent the diverse interests of our stakeholders across the country.”
The DOT has been working on this four-year plan since spring and is finally ready for it to be viewed by the public. If you wish to comment on the plan, you have until September 10th to do so. After the public comments period, a new draft will be completed.
From the DOT website: “Transportation Secretary Foxx is taking this opportunity to revisit the current strategy of the Department. As part of this effort, we are inviting organizations and individuals with an interest in the Department’s role in improving the Nation’s transportation system to comment on the initial draft”
To comment on the plan, visit the website here.
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Why does the dot even have these listening sessions? They don’t listen and they just do what they want just like CSA and the new hours of service.
I really dont see what the point is in commenting on there plan. There going to do whatever they want anyway. I for one am planning on getting out of the business by 2016! If only we could organise like the old days we could have a voice, truckers are the lifeblood of this country but the DOT treats us like criminals! For the sacrifice truckers make and the risks we live with everyday we diserve better! Organise!! Strike!! Strike!! Strike!!
Yeah, the DOT is going to ask public opinion. THAT’s rich.
Who in the heck do they think they’re fooling?
Too many sucke… I mean future drivers being promised 6 figures to give up a normal life and see the country. I agree a strike is long overdue simply for a bump in pay. The regulations are just a slap in the face on top of it. I say STRIKE!!!
NO!!!! TRUCKERS CANNOT STRIKE! GOV SAYS IT’S A TERRORIST ACT IF TRUCKERS STRIKE! ALL drivers need to take a one week vacation all at ONCE! Nothing’s illegal about that!!!!
I’m good with that too…
Strike, easier said then done!
Interstate Endorsement
Want to make the Highways safer? Concentrate on the real problems on the highways, John Q. Public, aka the general motoring public. Implement a four year plan that anyone that drives on a U.S Highway have an endorsement on their license. Make it a thorough written test concerning who has the right of way when merging onto a highway, what yield means, proper lane usage, proper use of high beam headlights, turn signals, how to pass without cutting off an 80,000 lb truck , pay attention. And put the laptop, newspaper, make up, and cell phone down. If they cause a major accident on the highway while driving reckless, make them financially responsible for damages and a charge that hurts other than failure to yield or too fast for conditions. Air commercials on T.V showing the correct way to merge onto an interstate, versus doing it at a 45 degree angle cutting off ALL traffic so they can get in the left/passing lane and ride. Get real and fix the real problem, leave the proven proffesional alone.
I agree everything you said!
you take and take never give back fuel goes up pay goes down drivers drive 4 nothing thank DOT FOR NOTHING
Lol, truckers say that they have no voice. Grovrenment opens up for discussion. Drivers say it doesn’t matter, they’ll do what they want anyways and subsequently don’t join the discussion. Government passes rules and drivers get outraged.
Self-fulfilling prophecy.
Alex , when was the last time FMCSA gave a tinkers dam about what we say ? ?? Let me answer that for you NEVER . They only offer listening sessions ,so they can say they did . If FMCSA listened to us , we would not have 95% of the BS rules and regs we have now . We dont have a voice . OOIDA is a joke just like all the rest of the so called “trucker advocates “
we do have a voice and we are expressing it by leaving this industry.
Kevin, you may be right on one aspect. That would be that the FMCSA didn’t really care what our “comments” had to tell them. They had such a small percentage of drivers make comments that it told them (FMCSA) that we (drivers) didn’t really care. They gave ample time to comment but most drivers figured that “no one will listen, why should I bother”. I think that’s just laziness on the part of the drivers that figured they wouldn’t bother. I’m not saying that the DOT is the same way, I for one will make a comment. I want my voice heard. All the problems with regard to the HOS, etc is our fault. Collectively our voices could be heard loud and clear, but no one wants to stand together. The large companies out there don’t care about anything but their bottom line—MONEY. How much can they make…them, not the driver. Nothing will change unless we band together. If you’re going to complain, think of a way to change or seek other employment…in another field.
I agree they don’t listen very well. With that said, not even trying to be heard is worse. As long as you take it they’ll keep dishing it out.
LOL? Alex, do you know who the stakeholders are? Do you believe the driver is one of them? Wake up, theres a bigger plan in place and it does NOT include you or me. Good Luck.
We should have a veteran truck driver as head of the dot .elected by our peers .not someone who has never even seen the inside of a rig .this industry is about a network of company owners looking to kill the independent trucker industry .their in the pockets of your major carriers .not about free enterprise anymore in this country .
A few thoughts I had as I read this short article:
1. I have trouble believing that any plan developed by this administration will seriously have the interests of business in mind.
2. The plan will cost money. Who’s going to pay? They’ll probably try to stick it to business without really meeting business’ needs, but don’t think you’re going to get out of paying. Individual taxpayers are where the burden ALWAYS comes to rest.
3. Part of the plan will largely be regulatory in nature, thereby firming government’s grip on we, it’s citizens.
4. That part of the plan that isn’t regulatory will have to be funded, and with today’s divided Congress (Thank God!), the likelihood of it being funded is pretty close to nil.
5. Taking #3 & #4 in mind above, I think the only part of the plan we’ll see implemented is the regulatory portion because our Chief Administrator will ram it through with an executive order rather than wait for legislation.
Ok, I’m off my soapbox now.
first of all this industry is dying becouse pace of the csa regs and by laws for for drivers is NOT realistic,and unsafe to boot ! who in their rite mind would expect a driver to work 14 hrs straight with only a half hr break , [ THE COMPANY ]thats too much preasure for any driver ! now we have a go go go frame of mind on the road and thats a rescipe for disaster and its going to burn out the driving work force. in my mind this is crule and unusal punishment…. long hrs and SHORT PAY, p.s. the farming industy is a tite net community and mostly handed down from gen to gen, but the the trucking industry is and has become a joke, its just a pork pot for the RICH and BIG goverment and i wound not recommend it to anyone especially my own family as they have seen the crap i have had too endore over my 25 years as a driver. God Bless the AMERICAN TRUCKER as we are a dying bread …..