Timothy Castanien - Comments

Document ID: FMCSA-2011-0098-0014
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Received Date: July 14 2011, at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: July 14 2011, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: June 29 2011, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: July 29 2011, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 80ec258e
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2011-2016 Strategic Plan: Raising the Safety Bar

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It is about time the scope thats's focused on safety in the transportation induistry specifically the trucking side,be broadened to include the two most contributing time-affecting factors for the drivers.The shippers and receivers,it is well known by the drivers themselves and even their companies,that shippers and receivers are the main entities that decay a drivers available time to work safely,as described by the FMSCA. As a driver myself I can personally relate several instances where it was not uncommon for a shipper to regularly delay drivers up to four to six hours ,and the same for an equal number of receivers.It's plain to see if a driver spends more than two hours at each end of your typical five hundred mile/nine hour run that he's going to be out of legal hours to drive as soon as his load is emptied,which doesn't even leave him enough time to find a safe haven to take his DOT break let alone pick up another load.