John Thune actually said...

"Significant progress has been made in improving truck safety."

"Your organization also contends that the hours-of-service rule that was adopted in 2003 is unsafe, and yet the rate of fatalities and injuries and crashes that involve large trucks steadily declining."

"The safety data is not there to justify that at this point."

"I guess the only observation I would make is that--and your assertion about hours of service being what it is--the numbers still--I would say independent of the decline in freight demand--you still ha..."