Up next Senate Lawmakers look into regulations and safety issues for large trucks. The Senate Commerce subcommittee heard from those who work in the Trucking Industry and a truck safety group. Authorization. Several trucking policies found many changes in the past decade including changes in both the industry and regulatory changes at the federal motor carrier safety administration. In nebraska, the hours of service at the top of the list. Concerns from truckers are consistent. These regulations are in flexible and do not reflect realworld situations. Because the Trucking Industry, 1sizefitsall approach fails, each of the different types of operations. Congress requires them to enforce Service Requirements. To be sure drivers dont drive when fatigued and delegated significant authority to f m csa for these requirements. A notice of proposed rulemaking for Service Requirements. To update regulations, interested stakeholders made their comments known to the agency. One has faced the chal
Hitandrun and vehicular manslaughter. He showed no remorse and would not discuss what happened. He gave no explanation, no reason, nothing. Reporter chp officer gabe walters says this tragedy hit some for him personally. We are in a small community. My daughter goes to school with them. Members of our church. Reporter lana was in sixth grade. Her sister is in eighth grade. Classmates and staff at Creekside Middle School are devastated. Such an unthinkable tragedy. Reporter Castro Valley schools superintendent as counselors are being made available. We will be really watchful of how they feel, make sure we support them, make sure they have time to process. Reporter neighbors and wellwishers have been leaving flowers at the scene of the crash. He did not know her but felt compelled to bring a sign warning drivers to be careful. Coming out to show people drive slowly. She made all the right decisions. It only takes one person to make the wrong decision to ruin everybodys lives. Reporter t
Providing transportation in rural areas and Railroad Safety. Well also learn about the department of transportations priorities for the coming year. Live coverage on cspan3. We have some wonderful, luxurious, very nice seatingrow. Id like to encourage everybody tole to closer. Were going to have a very nice discussion. Id like to encourage everybody closer. Make the setting a little bit more cozy and familial. We very much enjoy that. We like having a nice conversation about one of our favorite Public Policy issues. Yeah. Right along there. Thanks so much. Well, great. I want to welcome everyone to this panel. Again, thank you, all, very much for joining. My name is lawrence smith. Deputy assistant secretary for policy at the u. S. Department of transportation. It will be three years this month that ive been at the department. Incredibly honored to be part of a great team. Doing a lot of what we think is really, really awesome work. Going to be a lot of help to a lot of different parts
Test driver. And i dont believe they have rceived any training on how to be a test driver like i was a test pilot and i received training. Is that correct . That is correct. Two days after the crash, investigators drove the same route wong took, see the lane line fade on the left. The autopilot in wongs model x followed the bolder line into that traffic barrier. As i first reported in 2018, wongs family said he complained that it steered toward it as recently as four days before the crash. You would think with the knowledge, something my car is going to act squarely on, that maybe at least if im playing a game through the rest of my ride, maybe i should at least be more vigilant at this particular location. Cell phone record for wongs iphone show he was active on the three kingdoms video game. His hands off the Steering Wheel in the six seconds before impact. He was on the game each day driving that week. His attorney emailed me this statement. We believe he was using autopilot in a fo
Sanders countered by pointing to his army of the support. If you want to beat trump what you will need is an unprecedented, Grassroots Movement of black and white, and latino, native american and asian people. Sanders also came under fire for past comments, praising social programs in Fidel Castros cuba. We will not win these critical house and senate races if people in those races have to explain why the nominee of the Democratic Party is telling people to look at the bright side of the castro regime. Its different than saying the government occasionally does things that are good. Joe biden is counting on a victory on saturday in south carolinas primary. Based on his support from black voters. Folks, i intend to win south carolina, and i will win the africanamerican vote here. Every single policy area and the United States has gigantic subtext of race. We are talking about education, criminal justice, housing, we are talking about loans. This is also the last debate before super tuesd