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.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices