"That is almost unbelievable to me. So they are saying you could drive for 48 hours straight and not have a higher chance of an accident?"
"Do you think these driver fatigued regulations are really applicable to short haul?"
"My point is statistically, I do not know how in the world you are ever going to know whether these things--if we are talking about 19, maybe possibly 19 based on an uncompleted study of 27 graduate st..."
"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."
"I know that it is not the easiest position to be faced with all these questions, but you know, there are a lot of concerns."
"What was the experience, the actual effect of the 2003 rule on injuries, fatalities, accidents, so forth?"
"The idea that this rule would apply to them is just absurd."
"This idea from the federal bureaucracy that you are going to throw a wet blanket over everybody is just absolutely absurd."