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April 1, 2010 1:13 am
Thanks for your thoughtful comments.
For more information about why FMCSA has proposed to imposes regulations against commercial drivers, please see our next post called “Which Drivers are Covered.” After reading through this material, let the community know if your opinion has changed.
As to your comment about enforcement, you’ve identified one of the most difficult questions about this proposed regulation. Feel free to continue to discuss this question in the post called “Who & How of Enforcement.”
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I don’t dispute the distraction factor. 10 Minutes on any highway in the country should offer enough proof for all but the most obtuse.
What I object to is the singling out of any particular group of drivers as the focus of another un-enforceable law. (or, shall we say, really only enforceable after the fact)
Truckers already face a huge pile of regulations that apply only to them, and not to other drivers on the road. In most cases, these regulations are at least tangentally appropriate given the nature of the vehicle driven.
In this case, however, the activity in question is one engaged in by drivers off all classes of vehicle. It seems to me to be more appropriate for the regulation or non-regulation to come at the state level, and cover ALL vehicle operators.
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In other words, such a rule will have little to no effect on highway safety, and will be most likely show an effect only in the post-collision legal proceedings. « less