Is the public concerned about increasing the hours of service for truck drivers?
Public opinion polls conducted in the past three years show that Americans have serious concerns about truck safety in general on our highways and the issue of truck driver fatigue in particular. In 1997, the Insurance Research Council asked the public if truckers should be allowed to drive longer hours in one stretch and if truckers should be allowed to drive longer hours over an eight-day period. In both instances, over 80 percent of the respondents said that truck drivers should not be allowed to drive longer hours. In 1998, Louis Harris conducted a poll for Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates) in which 81 percent of the public said they feel that fatigued truck drivers are a very serious safety problem or somewhat of a serious safety problem. A survey conducted by the Opinion Research Corporation for the Consumer Federation of America and Advocates revealed that an overwhelming 93 percent of the American public think that driving longer hours is less safe than driving
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