LLN (5/6/21) – Ticket quotas – requiring law enforcement officers to write a certain number of tickets – is something well known to drivers, denied by enforcement agencies, and universally hated by the public. Now, seven states are taking action to end them. Also, the U.S. DOT wants to know if its current regulations do enough to tackle climate change, the FMCSA Medical Review Board prepares to meet, and the Department of Labor drops a worker classification proposal. Do we know enough about the safety and performance of automated vehicles? Or how their introduction would affect the livelihoods of truckers? OOIDA says no, we don’t. And efforts try to preserve flexibility in the hours of service.

0:00 – Newscast.

10:15 – DOT and climate change; worker classification; medical review board.

25:05 – Ticket quotas.

39:56 – Automated vehicle safety; hours of service flexibility.