OOIDA: DOT’s flurry of new regs needs a hard look

From Land Line Magazine
By Jami Jones, Land Line senior editorImage via Wikipedia
February 14, 2011

Toward the end of 2010, the Department of Transportation kicked into regulatory high gear, targeting the trucking industry with a number of regulatory actions – actions that OOIDA says are without scientific backing or substantiated benefits.

That’s the message delivered to the leadership House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association in a letter urging the committee to hold a hearing reviewing the DOT’s regulatory practices.

“For the past several months the department has vigorously embarked upon a series of regulatory actions that are certain to have a profound negative impact on small businesses and professional drivers in the trucking industry,” OOIDA Executive Vice President Todd Spencer wrote to members of the committee.

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Spencer’s letter requesting the hearings was coupled with an expression of the Association’s gratitude that HR72 had passed the House of Representatives – with support from the T&I leadership.

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The bill calls on certain congressional committees to review existing, pending and proposed regulations with respect to their effect on jobs and economic growth.

With the resolution opening the door to congressional review, Spencer urged the T&I committee to “move swiftly” to review existing regulations as well as the recent rulemaking activities that “have promise to cause undue regulatory compliance and cost burdens.”

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