I actually myself am one of the few Members of Congress that grew up in a trucking family.
I have been working across trying to address the problem of shortage for truck parking in Congress by leading the Truck Parking Safety Impro...
Try to do something good for truckers without doing something bad. Don't cripple them with unnecessary insurance increases and speed limiter...
it is the hours of service, and it is the electronic logbooks that are putting us in situations.
You know, recently the Federal Highway Administration released results of a 2019 Jason's Law survey, which examines truck park shortages nat...
That is correct.
Government has to get involved. Government, Congress, you have to help by passing something like Representative Bost's bill.
I think part of our job as Congress is to find a way to bring back that confidence of people to ride the train, to ride the buses.
Truckers don't stop. So they should be moved, elevated up to be right behind these frontline workers to get this vaccination.
I don't know how we make them comfortable to do their job.
Reinstate the per diem tax deduction for employee drivers. Let them deduct their meals while out on the road again.