Also, an unintended consequence is that more product will be shipped in cargo vans and 12" straight trucks, in order to get around the regulations.
The Federal Government is out of control. We have two bureaucracies that deal with transportation. This is pure insanity.
The entire economy is based upon just-in-time delivery and has been since the 80s. This will be highly inflationary.
Between this and the incredibly low bar the DOT physical places on “diagnosis” of sleep disorders, the US Government is destroying the transportation industry.
I was “diagnosed” with Apnea based on honestly answering a couple questions like “If you lie down in the afternoon, do you fall asleep? Well duh.
A real sleep specialist tested me and found that my apnea is so mild he wouldn’t even treat it, yet because the Government was in charge, I would need to get a CPAP and spend over $1000 a year for a job in which I was a volunteer bus driver a couple times a year.
So, the organization I drove for lost a driver and I gave up my CDL.
This is just patently stupid.
12” trucks? damn that’s small.....
It will not kill trucking. Change it, yes. Goods will still ship albeit at lower speeds and higher prices. It will somewhat increase the need for more trucks and truck drivers and thereby propel the development of driverless trucks.
It will be another government enforced miss allocation of resources .
It will,also soften the rest of society for,similar regulations on the rest of us.