So is it more than 80 percent of motor carriers surveyed had experienced productivity loss since the new rules went into...
They were going down before that.
If we put this rule in effect, are we going to know that it has had any effect at all?
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.
Well, I think that what we have got here is we had a rule in place that had reduced traffic deaths, fatalities, accident...
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.
Did your study in its analysis of these 19 lives that could be saved, did it take into account the fact that truckers ar...
Actually, it is such a small percentage that we will not even know if these rules are having any effect, will we?
Now, today, is it not 20, 30 percent below what it was 15 years ago?
So we do not want to insert the government into their lives any more than we need to.
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?
What was the experience, the actual effect of the 2003 rule on injuries, fatalities, accidents, so forth?
somebody should have said, 'Mr. President, stop saying that. You are going to get hit over the head with this.'
if you liked your health care plan, you can keep it