Well, if I am bouncing between the economists and regulators and the truckers, I am going to take the truckers every tim...
And then they come back up in the last two or three years, but they are still down 30 percent.
But under the rule as proposed, are we not forcing drivers into those hours? Yes, clearly we are. Yes, we are.
Do you think that these rules could force truck drivers to drive in a fatigued situation when they otherwise would not?
My point is statistically, I do not know how in the world you are ever going to know whether these things--if we are tal...
What was the experience, the actual effect of the 2003 rule on injuries, fatalities, accidents, so forth?
We want to be efficient and productive, and we want our people to be compensated well.
The whole thing is American competitiveness.
I do think it is arrogance. I absolutely think it is arrogance. I think we need to rethink. We need to reset.
If we put this rule in effect, are we going to know that it has had any effect at all?
Well, I think that what we have got here is we had a rule in place that had reduced traffic deaths, fatalities, accident...
I know that it is not the easiest position to be faced with all these questions, but you know, there are a lot of concer...
All right. Today, how many trucking fatalities from trucking accidents are there average in America today?
This idea from the federal bureaucracy that you are going to throw a wet blanket over everybody is just absolutely absur...
The idea that this rule would apply to them is just absurd.
if you liked your health care plan, you can keep it
somebody should have said, 'Mr. President, stop saying that. You are going to get hit over the head with this.'
And I do appreciate the final comment, a complementary system which is beneficial to military families.