Reaction to yesterday’s congressional hearings on speed limiters

Norita Taylor - Director of Public Relations - OOIDA - Independence, MO

“All kinds of studies show that when all traffic flows at the same speed, it’s much safer for everyone,” Lewie Pugh, executive vice president of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, told the highway subcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Wednesday.

• How do you feel the hearings went?

• Given that the FMCSA is proposing this, what do you think the effect will be?

• What other opportunities are you taking - if any - to voice opinions about speed limiters?

ON THE OTHER HEARINGS

• TIA President Anne Reinke testified on the lack of enforcement the FMCSA has on stopping double brokers and other “bad actors” - what do you think about this and does it affect owner-operators as much as fleet carriers?

• David Fialkov, NATSO’s executive vice president of government affairs: “Our challenge in entering the electric vehicle charging market is that it remains unacceptably difficult to identify a viable business case for installing EV charging stations,” he said. “Our view is that these grant programs that are being developed should have a keener eye toward overcoming that challenge.”

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