Anyone else catch this release

That guy is a donkey.

What they really should do is take these stinking companies that bring on a new driver and make him work for slave wages and make that crap illegal.

These companies should just teach drivers common sense and actually teach them how to drive and be safe rather than just be thrown into a truck with another guy and see how many miles two people can drive in a day when one of them barely knows how to sit behind the wheel.

You cannot micromanage everything through regulation.

 

Well, here is what I think about Mr. Williams' goals. He works for an entry level training company. They pay their students $600 per week while with a trainer. If you go through their training program, you are required to sign a contract for 2 years with a promissory note attached to it. Trucks are governed at 65. Their "average" annual pay is 45K per year. I gathered all of this information by doing a very quick Google search. So I suppose Mr. Williams wants every company to operate under the same guise as his. What a mess.

 

Hopefully OOIDA will fight them on this too.

 

I would love to see an actual breakdown of accident data.

I would like to know the accident rate new drivers vs. Older drivers, new trucks versus older trucks, Mega carriers vs. Owner operators versus small fleets, ELD trucks versus non ELD trucks, automated braking trucks versus driver control trucks, accidents related to drug use versus sobriety versus drinking vs tiredness...

I think they lump all this data together just to throw more regulations out there when the real truth of it may not exactly be with they're trying to say it is.

It's unfortunate but everything is political including the political spin. It's amazing in our culture that people are so evasive just with the raw truth of things.

 

ELD's make us safer, just ask livestock haulers.

 

Great post Dino...couldn't agree more. Sounds like a typical Washington lobbyist to me.