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Jim Park
Former HDT Equipment Editor
Straight talk on trucking from a driver turned award-winning journalist.
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Former HDT Equipment Editor
Straight talk on trucking from a driver turned award-winning journalist.
In the final days or maybe hours until FMCSA's latest hours of service proposal is revealed, I'm more than a little taken aback by comments I'm hearing from some drivers. More than a few drivers think that an eight-hour driving day would be fine.
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"The reason we've got an unparalleled standard of living in the history of the world is because we've got a free market that is dynamic and entrepreneurial, and that free market has to be nurtured and cultivated.
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Imagine the driver shortage we'd have today if trucks hadn't evolved from what we were running back in the '50s and '60s
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Just curious here: What is it the EPA and NHTSA believe they can accomplish by regulating fuel efficiency standards that the market isn't already doing, or wouldn't do if the economic argument made sense
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Finally, a fatigue-related crash has come to the forefront that exposes the chasm that often exists between safety and compliance
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It just doesn't pay to get involved anymore, but tell that to someone wired with the willingness-to-help gene
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