Frank Lautenberg

I just want to be sure on that record.

In fact, allowing super-sized heavy trucks on more highways will make our roads and bridges more dangerous, not safer.

It is up to Congress to take action now that will improve safety, protect the long-term national investment in our crumbling highway and bridge infrastructure.

As I continue my quest, wearing another committee hat, to limit the expansion of ever-larger trucks on the highway system--we look at that as a threat to those traveling on the same highways.

When will CSA 2010 be ready for implementation? Do you have the tools and resources for the program to be put in place effectively?

The fact that EOBRs are not compulsory really as part of original equipment is unacceptable.

I ask you to move things along as rapidly and, of course, as efficiently as you can.

Well, in fairness, we have seen fatigue in the aviation industry as well, and the consequences are very serious.

The NTSB has called for EOBRs, as we heard, on all commercial motor vehicles. Why has your agency not issued a more comprehensive EOBR mandate for all carriers on the road?

It is essential that we take the danger posed by tired truck drivers seriously.

The Obama Administration has made the right move by initiating a new rulemaking on driver hours.

SHIPA will stop the relentless cycle of demands and pressure imposed on the states by the trucking interests for increased tractor-trailer lengths.

I pointed out that fatalities occur each and every day. That is common knowledge.

They are supposed to. We have to watch them all.

The NTSB has found that fatigue is a primary factor in 30 to 40 percent of large truck crashes.

[e]very year for the past decade, nearly, 5,000 people died and 125,000 were injured in crashes with a large truck. That's nearly 14 people a day, or 14 families torn apart by horrible, and often avoidable accidents.

When this process is over, we cannot wind up with the same flawed regulations that the last Administration designed.

We need to close that loophole and block these long, overweight trucks from using our national highway system.

Thanks, everybody, for being here. Thank you, Senator Thune, for being here.

It is hard to accept a condition that threatens people on the road when we can do something about it.

Frankly, our responsibility is to get to the end of the game, and that is to keep the trucking industry going.

Thank you for your testimony.

We have got to improve the pace with which the Senate moves its legislative agenda.

The--we're not fishing families, but we are fish-eating people, and I thank you all for your testimony.

Yes, but do we feel the heat? Do we see this--the reality of shells being too soft or even transparent in places?