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>>>labor unions and safety advocates say would make roadways more dangerous<<<

I agree 100 percent, I've worked the trucking industry and driving isn't as easy as it looks, breaks or no breaks, drivers should not be forced to work 16 hours, apparently Wal-Mart and others suggesting this idiotic idea have never driven a big rig cross country.

Apparently a lot of people are living with the fantasy of the drivers who used to wander into Mels diner.

All this will do is drive more Americans out of the trucking industry and there will be someone waiting to take "the jobs Americans won't do".

"I've worked the trucking industry and driving isn't as easy as it looks"

Do you favor the new hours of service that were struck down or the old, reinstated, regs?

Would Sam Walton support such measures?

I don't like the idea of working more than 8 hours a day nor working without a break.

I don't like the idea of driving in a smaller vehicle next to a big rig whose driver is working more than 8 hours a day with no breaks.

I don't like the idea of adults spending that much time working unless it's pursuing a personal passion and/or hobby...especially if these adults are fathers or mothers of children that need the presence of both mom and dad.

I don't like the idea that humans can be turned into a colony of sexless ants and bees working their butts off to feed the queen. We're humans and not insects. We have families, and we're royalty of our own realm. Labor laws keep us from becoming some queen's expendable pawn.

Our society has consumerism (idolatry) to counter. But if we need a tragic example of the graphic insect image, then look no further than North Korea, Cuba, Communist China, the former Soviet Union, slaves of the drug cartels and criminal empires, and slaves of terror cults.

What insurance company is going to foot the bill of an out of control rig weighing tens of thousands of pounds moving over 65 miles per hour? How many law firms smelling a blood-soaked buck will chase such wrongful death law suits? Don't we already have left-wing activists politicizing such loses on the job because of slave-driving capitalists?

I disagree with many salaried wages because those that make such salaries are usually the best qualified for making families. Why keep them on the job longer when they should be with the children during that time? If someone is pushed into a salaried position, doesn't that mean they can be bullied to work harder without compensation?

Do we really need that money that much to work that hard? Isn't it better to offset the work to an evening crew and spread load the talent to the night shift? The best workers and managers don't always have to be on the day watch. I'm not so sure that all of the rumors of Wal-Mart are from Wal-Mart. There were a lot of rumors stating that President Bush was going to initiate a draft. No reasonable military mind would ever allow conscription when we obviously don't need it. So, I have to wonder about all of the Wal-Mart rumors. The conscription rumors led Pres. Bush to insure that a vote for him guaranteed no draft. Perhaps Wal-Mart will defuse similar rumors by countering them with pro-family and pro-American policies...even if these means switching their inexpensive product manufacters from China to South "America" to insure that (South) "American made" first remains part of their credo.