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The post below is a return reply in an email that I recently sent to the GAO. Whether or not it makes a difference will be if I choose to not follow it through, which I will follow it through until I have made a difference or run out of resources from trying. You all have good ideas and things that need to be addressed. Make them be heard.

Dear Mr. Duff,       
 Thank you for your e-mail regarding the trucking industry. I will be sure to share your comments with the team that did our work.

Chuck Young
GAO Public Affairs

>>> "The Duffs"  7/23/2008 4:39 PM >>>
I know my email may have no realivents to the GAO, but as a private citizen and a career truck driver by trade. I do not understand why the media, the gao as well as the ATA continue to drive to make the trucking industry complicated and unrealistic with the so called sick drivers, deaths by accidents, etc. publicity that every one keeps putting on this industry.
         You have more people involved in non-commercial accidents and deaths by accidents then the trucking industry could ever produce. Yet the only concern anyone seams to publish is the one that keeps feeding this nation by moving your food and merchandise from coast to coast. No the trucking industry is not perfect and it will probably never will be in our life time. But as for the reasons you all wish to keep making it more complicated and driving up the expense to ship by making it complicated.
         This country needs to find a new excuse and stop riding the dead horse that the accidents and fatalities on our highways can be majorly reduced by screwing with the trucking industry. That horse is dead tell the lobbist and anybody else that thinks they have a good idea for this industry to clean the skeletons out of their own closet, before they come to make the skeletons in the trucking industry homeless. Lets be realistic your organization as well as the rest that think they know whats best in regulating this industry has already made the industry so bad now you can't make a living at it anymore.
          If this country would bother to enforce the laws and regulations that you already have in place for the privledge to drive a non-commercial and a commercial vehicle. I do believe you would find a reduction in all accidents and deaths on or roadways as well as find a serious increase in local, county and state revenues by the tickets and fines that would be issued for keeping our laws enforced.

Best Regards





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072108_GAO_study_critical.htm