What is the difference in tackling issues legislatively vs. regulatorily?
Getting things accomplished legislatively generally means going through a State Legislature or the United States Congress and then on to the Executive Branch (governor/president). Achieving these changes regulatorily involves working through the regulatory agencies such as the Department of Transportation. Both directions are worth the effort, but both are difficult to achieve. For example, the proper Federal legislative approach is to have new laws written into the Surface Transportation Act that is now up for renewal. If the language we promote is not included, Road Safe America and our friends must wait up to six years until the same bill is automatically up for renewal. On the regulatory side, Road Safe America and numerous trucking firms have jointly filed a petition with the Department of Transportation concerning speed governors. In the three year period since the petition’s delivery, there has been no action taken.
