The Entry Level Driver Training Advisory Committee spent the last part of day one of its Thursday meeting outlining what facilitator Richard Parker termed “key policy issues” around the negotiated rulemaking on pre-CDL training it’s conducting with FMCSA. Toward the end of the meeting, facilitator Parker added a key item to the list of issues related to data: “the need for data on the connection between training inputs and safety outputs” as he put it. Shortly after, during the public comment period, Joe Rajkovacz pointed out that we’ve been down this same road with a training rule in years past. In his comment, he calls up the memory of something one of the public safety advocates had to say about the data on training and its connection to safety. Read more via http://www.overdriveonline.com/entry-level-driver-training-podcast-the-data-problem/