"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."
"I hope that we will soon begin drafting the motor carrier safety title, so that we are fully prepared..."
"We can better develop the performance specifications for the devices."
"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..."
"I am pleased that with this hearing we are beginning our work to reauthorize the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration."
"Significant progress has been made in improving truck safety."
"FMCSA has indicated that good quality data is critical to the success of CSA 2010."
"I expect there will be a fair amount of discussion this morning about the agency's CSA 2010 initiative."
"every year for the past decade, nearly 5,000 people have died and 125,000 were injured in crashes involving a large truck."
"The NPR emphasizes the development of conventional Prompt Global Strike capabilities."
"Transportation infrastructure is critical, and all of the different modes are, at some point or another, vulnerable or susceptible to attacks."