A Quote By Jim Johnston, OOIDA President, from a keynote address to the International Truck and Bus Safety Symposium at the University of Tennessee.

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"Additionally, the lack of mandatory standardized training has left the door open for many abuses and a continuing influx of new and unprepared drivers. It is absolutely ludicrous that occupations such as barbers, hairdressers and insurance agents are required to go through mandatory training in order to be licensed, but that no training at all is required to obtain a license to operate an 80,000-pound truck over the highway."