Excerpt from Truck Safety Act of 1978: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, United States Senate, Ninety-Fifth Congress, Second Session on S. 2970, to Promote Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety, to Prevent Injury to Commercial Motor Vehicle Operators This legislation, introduced by Senator Percy, would greatly strengthen the power Of the Federal Government in the truck safety area. Yesterday, this committee heard testimony on more limited aspects of the truck safety - the issue Of regulation of truck length. Today's hearing concerns the broader question of how to regulate the multitude of heavy-duty commercial vehicles on this Nation's highways. This Nation and its economy are highly dependent on trucks to ship goods through the country. Approximately million interstate truck drivers share the Nation's highways with other drivers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.