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Welcome to the debate seven years too late. The issue of whether there should be a broker/forwarder bond, or how much it should be, has long been debated.

This week's letter writers reflect on the passing of a longtime ATA employee and tout the benefits of twin 33-foot trailers.

Your Oct. 31 issue of Transport Topics included a letter about changing the rules and getting more drivers. In essence, have two drivers in each truck. After reading it, my thoughts were: Where have you been over the past two decades?

Change Rules to Reduce The Driver Shortage

Fuel Benefits Help The Environment

This week's letter writers focus on two aspects of technology and their impact on the trucking industry.

Weight is a roadway’s enemy. Heavier weight requires thicker pavements, longer curves, reduced grades and more substantial bridges. These truths cannot be disputed; the construction standards associated with each item substantially increases the initial cost of the roadway network.

Federal agencies and the trucking industry both recognize the health and welfare of commercial motor vehicle drivers is imperative to protecting public safety. But as you would expect, there is disagreement over the means to achieve this end.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration needs to suspend promulgation of electronic logging devices, or ELDs, and reopen the comment period due to fatal flaws stemming from contradicting language in the rule’s wording.

I disagree with the conclusion that removing nonpreventable crashes will result in significant changes in carriers’ CSA Crash Indicator BASIC percentile scores.