“WASHINGTON—In a rerun of a 40-year-old battle over safety on the nation’s roads, the National Consumers League, the Teamsters, and their allies are again trying to throttle the truck companies’ push for longer and heavier trucks traversing U.S. highways.
As it has since 1983, the battle is being waged on Capitol Hill, but the outcome is vital to everyone in the U.S. After all, everyone uses the roads, whether they’re drivers, passengers, truckers, pedestrians, or cyclists.
On July 22, it played out before the Senate Commerce Committee at a hearing on bus and truck safety. Teamsters President Sean O’Brien testified. His union was already on the record—at a House hearing ten weeks before—against the bigger rigs.”