every year for the past decade, nearly 5,000 people have died and 125,000 were injured in crashes involving a large truck.
While FMCSA has experienced some rocky periods, I believe the agency has turned a corner.
I hope that we will soon begin drafting the motor carrier safety title, so that we are fully prepared...
I am pleased that with this hearing we are beginning our work to reauthorize the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
Significant progress has been made in improving truck safety.
Is it possible that certain carriers who are considered safe under the current system would not be considered safe under CSA 2010?
FMCSA has indicated that good quality data is critical to the success of CSA 2010.
There is a responsibility, obviously, at the Federal level and I guess the states are also an important and integral part of that sort of pa...
The safety data is not there to justify that at this point.
We can better develop the performance specifications for the devices.
I guess the only observation I would make is that--and your assertion about hours of service being what it is--the numbers still--I would sa...
The NPR emphasizes the development of conventional Prompt Global Strike capabilities.
An attack on our Nation's surface transportation system could disrupt the timely delivery of goods and significantly weaken our Nation's eco...
While aviation security gets most of the public's attention, the security of our Nation's surface transportation system must also be a natio...
I do find the conclusions of the recently released White House assessment on surface transportation security rather troublesome.
Transportation infrastructure is critical, and all of the different modes are, at some point or another, vulnerable or susceptible to attack...
Do your missile defense plans take into account longstanding and possibly present day cooperation and support by Russia and China for Iran's...
But with due respect to General Caldwell, we have trained many people in Afghanistan.
