Do tell me, the current negatives of the regulation regime, and the benefits of the new one? Also don’t forget to provide a realistic analysis of future safety failures and ways in which the old regulations would have prevented that, and why the new ones don’t and why that’s ok.
Will there slight increase in safety failures ? maybe, I accept that.
Further, companies like Amazon will have enough money and influence to absorb the cost of unsafe drivers, while most registered US motor carriers (the vast majority of which are under 100 trucks) will be put at a huge disadvantage vis a vi Amazon. The last thing society needs is Amazon yet again pushing others out of business by being able to race to the bottom and lose money in the short to medium term.
That's the deterrent for the trucker to not screwing up.
Do you have any first hand experience with trucking? It really sounds like you are expressing your opinion from a place of ignorance (feel free to prove me wrong with reasoned argument). My background: I am a founder of a US based software company whose customers are motor carriers.
This means I have to have my “idiot filter” on whenever I’m reading hn.
So you want to deregulate commercial truck drivers because you feel costs of getting/maintaining a CDl outweigh the safety issues?
Do you have any insight on this at all? Have you ever driven a commercial truck for a living? Do you even know the cost of obtain/maintain a CDL? The average cost of a commercial trucking accident? The average decrease in commercial truck accidents via-a-vis trucking school?
How about commercial pilots? Should we do away with pilot license because the liensure increases business costs notwithstanding increase in safety failures?
- death
- disabled for life
- life in prison
- monetary damages
- no company will hire you
I believe with less training and lower standards there will be more accidents?
Historically there were less regulations and more accidents. Licensing is only one component of the safety regulations enacted, but again historically yes without these regulations truckers engaged in more risky driving behaviors.
Again it sounds like you are unfamiliar with the industry.
Company can still provide as many training or requiring as high standard as they want.
One way to reduce risky driving behaviors is to impose high penalty/punishment for risky behaviors.
Regulation creates a barrier, sure - a good barrier is one which requires training, practices, and equipment to promote safety.
Likewise, with high regulation, there still people who drive recklessly.
Regulation creates a barrier, so its not easy for newcomer to enter and compete.
Becoming a good trucker still requires training, practices, and equipment to promote safety regardless of regulation.
Except you want to remove those regulations that include training and licensure requirements.
Rules already exist to penalize CDl holders for poor driving and they are a higher standard/increased penalties compared to none CDl drivers...what we don’t need is allowing untrained and unlicensed commercial drivers, that in no way will improve driver safety.
yes but the company can still train their trucker as much as they want, the trucker can still get training as much as they want.
>what we don’t need is allowing untrained and unlicensed commercial drivers
These untrained trucker won't get hired, do you think you will want to hire untrained trucker ? Regarding the unlicensed, why not ? provided they can prove that they can do the job well and has good track record ?
Are you sure about that? What would the insurance risk premiums be on letting amateurs drive tractor trailers.
Seems this would simply push the risks (future expense of an accident) on other people of the road.