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On the recordApril 27, 2010
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 have a substantial decline based on 100 million miles of travel in that one-year period.
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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Senator Thune acknowledges a decline in crash rates despite concerns over hours of service.

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