What Truck Safety Is Not About / What Truck Safety Should Be About

Henry E. Seaton, Esq.
Seaton & Husk, LP


What Truck Safety Is Not About

1. Truck safety is not about shippers and brokers having to credential carriers under fear of vicarious liability.

2. Truck safety is not about competition or competitive advantage.

3. Truck safety is not about a comparative safety regime in which your compliance scores must be less than half of your peer grouped carriers to stay in business.

What Truck Safety Should Be About

1. Truck safety should be about federal government certifying carriers as safe to operate and placing out of service carriers which cannot comply with federal standards.

2. Truck safety should be about a free and competitive industry in which carriers are allowed to operate and are only placed out of service after an opportunity to improve compliance and due process.