Tom Rice actually said...

"Do you think that these rules could force truck drivers to drive in a fatigued situation when they otherwise would not?"

"But under the rule as proposed, are we not forcing drivers into those hours? Yes, clearly we are. Yes, we are."

"And then they come back up in the last two or three years, but they are still down 30 percent."

"Well, if I am bouncing between the economists and regulators and the truckers, I am going to take the truckers every time."