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?

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.

So we do not want to insert the government into their lives any more than we need to.

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?

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 students, how in the world are you going…

My point is we do not know if it is going to save any lives.

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

I think we need to have a conversation about what the Federal role is.

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