Many operators who are put out of business because of a safety violation just turn around and file under a new name.
Truck safety has improved significantly since FMCSA was established in 2000.
PHMSA grants special permits and approvals without exercising its regulatory authority.
I share your concerns with respect to the safety issues that have been raised from the Inspector General's report.
We need the current Administration to mandate EOBRs on every large truck.
Our bus safety bill would be another very important highway safety accomplishment that will help save lives.
There is still important work to be done in ensuring unsafe trucks, unsafe truck drivers, and unsafe trucking companies ...
I think it may be time for us to reform some portions of the operations of that agency.
Without your commitment and the vigor that you have shown, I think sometimes maybe Congress would have lagged behind.
I have been certainly a supporter of the COTS, the Commercial Orbital Transportation System.
I am hoping that we will be able to extend the Shuttle to narrow that gap.