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enter the document number (in my title line to this thread). (use capital letters FMCSA)

fill in the "comment or submission field"......OR, you may have to enter it in the "search" field.

go from there.

we have until Friday the 15th to respond


this is what i just submitted online moments ago:

I do believe that we as professional drivers should have these rules stay as-is. We are the only ones that actually know how to do our job each and every day. No citizens group should be able to control the trucking industry, regarding our rest, or our working hours per week. The "average american worker" can work over 40 pers week, and by week's end, get whatever rest that individual needs. The start of the new work week, entitles that "average worker" to start fresh, and earn/work as many hours as possible, with no citizen group or government involvement. Why should ANY citizen group interfere with our livelyhood? Do we as professional driver's interfere with the "average american worker"? To that, I respond, NO, we don't. The 34 hour reset ruling allows us to start fresh the new work week, and the 11 hours driving time is no more tiring than the 10 hours of driving time. We as professional driver's, are better trained and experienced than the "average american driver", who very frequently drives while drunk, stressed out, angry, tired, and is usually uneducated properly through schooling, in the safety of the roads, sharing those roads, vehicle safety equipment, laws of the roads in which state they live in, carry little or no insurance, and many times, drive on suspended licenses. Are we to be dictated by many of those individuals regarding safety on the road, when they are so inadequate themselves in such? Why does the U.S. Government seem to be so eager to listen to citizen groups about trucking, trucking laws, trucking rules, when these individuals in most cases, have no working knowledge of the trucking industry in of itself, and the overall importance of the industry? Wouldn't it be somewhat wiser to listen to those of us that actually have been properly trained and experienced? In closing, I suggest to you, to leave the current regulations/rules in effect. The "old" rules/regualtions were put into place decades ago for when times were different. We are now as you know, into the 21st century. we need to go forward, not backwards in time simply to satisfy citizens groups or individuals who only need to see themselves as "controlling" an industry they have absoultely no knowledge of from thier experience.
thank you