Terry Montalbano - Comments

This rule will lower the standards of testing in the State that I am from. In Illinois, when drivers go to a commercial driving school, or a community college to learn to drive a truck, it is for 160 hours, and for at least 4 weeks long. This rule, will allow those drivers, who want a quick license, to go to a stste, with lesser standards, get trained, and then skills tested, and then come back to Illinois, and flip it back.That is lowering the standards, no matter how you look at it. Why can't a state raise the bar? if you make one size fits all, then the whole country's standards are lowered. You should have a minimum, that all states must follow, but if they wish to raise the hours, and hold their drivers accountable, and produce a better driver, why not? I really would be interested, in your comments, when and if this proposal becomes law, and asked by the media, why you forced Illinois to lower its hours for drivers who went out of state, to the weakest link in the chain, came back and flipped its license, what your comment will be? Would it be something like, well, we did not want to make truck driver training to hard? or will it be, since it was an inconvienance to these drivers who flip, and these CDL Mills, that trained them? I just hope you do the right thing, and not force States, who are trying to be tougher, for public safety, not be forced, to take some States junk. Your logic on this is very very flawed. Terry Montalbano