Mike
Well-Known Member
If you want to improve the trucking industry, it’s time you start listening to its drivers, OOIDA Executive Vice President Lewie Pugh told members of a U.S. Senate subcommittee on Tuesday, Feb. 4.
Pugh was one of five witnesses at the Senate’s Transportation and Safety Subcommittee hearing titled, “Keep on Truckin’: Stakeholder Perspectives on Trucking in America.”
“From our perspective as small-business motor carriers and professional drivers, we can see that the trucking industry is dysfunctional,” Pugh said. “In large part, this is because too many people who know very little about trucking have an oversized role in shaping trucking policy. Drivers feel the negative effects of this firsthand, myself included.
“The hours-of-service rules are broken. There are hundreds of regulations that have nothing to do with highway safety. The lack of truck parking has reached a national crisis. Enforcement is often motivated by profit, and drivers work extremely long hours for notoriously low pay.”
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Pugh was one of five witnesses at the Senate’s Transportation and Safety Subcommittee hearing titled, “Keep on Truckin’: Stakeholder Perspectives on Trucking in America.”
“From our perspective as small-business motor carriers and professional drivers, we can see that the trucking industry is dysfunctional,” Pugh said. “In large part, this is because too many people who know very little about trucking have an oversized role in shaping trucking policy. Drivers feel the negative effects of this firsthand, myself included.
“The hours-of-service rules are broken. There are hundreds of regulations that have nothing to do with highway safety. The lack of truck parking has reached a national crisis. Enforcement is often motivated by profit, and drivers work extremely long hours for notoriously low pay.”
OOIDA: Truckers aren’t the problem; they’re the solution
During a Senate subcommittee hearing, OOIDA Executive Vice President Lewie Pugh told lawmakers that it’s time to turn to truckers for solutions.
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