Yes Thank For god Idea because we truckers are blood
of Economy and DOT Rules specially CSA2010 we truckers
we puting our Life to work and social enjoyment is on side bad worst is Our paychceck get smaller you can
slowly make living. Yes we truckers will support his
action Thank God someone open his eyes.

It is time to reduce the size of the Department of Transportation or privatize it. Canada has privatized their Department of Transportation
and it work much better than ours. It did not cost their tax payers any money.

I’m fine with getting rid of the DOT but please, don’t stop there! Get rid of the EPA and the DOE as well for starters. Then we can look into the BATF&E after they arranged gun sales to the Mexican drug lords. I think we can do without help like that as well.

Don’t forget the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission) that also takes a cut of the price of each load that trucks carry both in and between states. That also gets “redistributed”.

There are over 1000 agencies in Washington. Our new President should cut all new hiring and combine those agencies which do similar things. The folks that are no longer needed could then fill the jobs of those who retired.

I read a comment one time about government expansion.

The regulations the government people work under are meant to encourage expansion.

For instance, there is NO incentative for a manager to save money. Instead, if he doesn’t spend every penny authorized by the government, he and his department are penalized the next year. If he does spend it all, he gets a bonus. Which would you do?

Pay grades for the government employees depend upon how many people they oversee. If you have ten employees, you will remain at that present level until your department increases in size. Once you hire enough people, you will automatically get a pay raise and a promotion. Which would you do – particularly after about ten years at the same pay?

Job security is very important to all of them. So let’s say you work for them and you do a certain job. The job requirements increase over time until you can no longer do all the work yourself. So – does the government hire one person to help you by splitting the load? Not at all. They hire TWO people to split the load and you oversee them since you know the entire job. You can fill in for either one who might be on vacation, etc. and know their jobs well enough to make sure they are doing their jobs correctly. Also see the reason above for hireing the extra person …

And these are only three reasons.

I’M ALL FOR DOING AWAY WITH 3 AND/OR 4 LETTER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES THAT DO LITTLE MORE THAN WASTE TAX MONEY & CREATE MORE RED TAPE. HELL YEAH, THE LESS THE BETTER !!! I JUST KINDA QUESTION THE OVERALL OUTCOME OF THIS. BECAUSE EVEN AFTER YOU GET RID OF THE D.O.T. & TURN IT OVER TO THE STATES TO DEAL WITH, YOU MAY END UP CREATING ANOTHER MONSTER THAT’S EVEN WORSE THAN THE ONE YOU JUST GOT RID OF. TO GIVE THE STATE BMV OR D.O.T. EVEN MORE POWER OVER US IS UNTHINKABLE & IS SURE TO ONLY MAKE IT WORSE. EXAMPLE – THE OHIO BMV AND/OR OHIO D.O.T.’S POWER WOULD BE INCREASED. ANYONE WHO KNOWS ABOUT THE OHIO BMV OR D.O.T. WILL TELL YOU, THAT’S A HORRIBLE IDEA. BECAUSE, BUREAUCRAT = IDIOT ON A POWER TRIP WHO CAN’T BE QUESTIONED & IS NEVER WRONG, JUST THAT SIMPLE. GIVE ‘EM MORE POWER? OH, HELL NO !!! SO, WHILE I’M ALL FOR GETTING RID OF MORE BUREAUCRATS AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL, LET’S ALSO WORK TO REDUCE THE POTENTIAL FOR STATE & LOCAL BUREAUCRATS TO CAUSE HAVOC ON US & REDUCE THEIR NUMBERS AS WELL. ACTUALLY REGULATE THE REGULATORS FOR ONCE. ACCORDING TO THE CONSTITUTION, WE CAN ACTUALLY DO THAT, YA KNOW ? WE CAN ELECT PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM & LESS GOVERNMENT. GOVERNMENT IMPOSED TYRANNY AGAINST US CAN BE STOPPED DEAD IN IT’S TRACKS BY US. WE JUST HAVE TO ELECT INTELLIGENT PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM & OUR CONSTITUTION TO CARRY OUT OUR WILL. YES, I’M TALKING ABOUT RON PAUL THERE. BUT THERE HAS TO BE MORE THAN JUST HIM WILLING TO GIVE US BACK OUR FREEDOM. THERE JUST HAS TO BE. WE NEED TO FIND & ELECT THEM. IT WON’T BE EASY, BUT I PROMISE YOU, IT IS NECESSARY. R3VOLUTION, BABY !!! RON PAUL 2012 !!!!!!!!!!!

Let’s not stop with just the DOT, the EPA, NEA and anumber of other oversized, over funded agencies that act like cops are in dire need of the axe. This government is full of uncontrollable and irresponsible bullies that in a lot of cases that deserve no money or respect. Re-Pare the government and let’s get it under control.

The DOT is one of those redistributive agencies that cause states and localities to have budget shortfalls. Many states send more money to the federal government than they get back. The difference has to be made up by the taxpayers of that state. Basically, less successful states are being subsidized by more successful ones. If one state can’t afford to build a highway, then they shouldn’t have a highway. It shouldn’t be up to the rest of the states to pitch in and help it build one. It’s not my responsibility as a citizen of a successful state to pay for the needs of another state that mismanaged it’s own money and now wants a handout.

While I’m not entirely again St getting rid of DOT, I think some of you miss the point. Our highway system, like the German Autobahn system it was designed after, wasn’t built with the populations comfort in mind. It was build to efficiently and quickly allow military travel of troops and equipment to anywhere in the united states in case of invasion or attack. It was sold as a pub licence necessity so as to be more palatable to the public. That being the case DOT has its function but it is bloated and mismanaged beyond repair. Get rid of it and its fat and put it under DOD where it should be.

I worked for the Federal Government; and what I saw would make you sick. One person working – 5 standing around doing nothing ! B-day party’s, engagement party’s, always some kind of party on work time.
Yes we need these government agency’s, but we could let 4 out of 5 go, saving the tax payer money. you ever go threw a Immigration check point! One person asking a white person if they are a US citizen, another 10 people standing around, and they are talking about hiring another 50,000, that’s our government at work. Does anyone see something wrong with this picture.

Half a trillion dollars for DOT over six years? Why? We don’t need additional highways in areas I’m familiar with and most of those I’m familiar with are in good repair or are being fixed. As far as I’m concerned, this is wasted money.

I’m fine with elimination of DOT as an arm of the Federal government. I’m also fine with elimination of the Department of Education, DOE, and several others.

If you do away with the Dept of Transportation then expect to live with more toll roads. Whether built with government funds or private contractors. Toll roads are not cheap and can be a heavy burden on those who have to continuously use them. Some Americans don’t want a shared sacrifice anymore and probably never did. Cory Gardner’s District is a rural area with two major portions of Interstates(I-70 and 76). There is no way he could maintain or rebuild those major roads and would always have to depend on the state or Federal government to do it. He would be fibbing to his constituents if he says otherwise. Ronald Reagan tried to put more of the Federal burden back onto the states . It saved the Feds little but put a greater burden on the states. In the end the states still had to ask Washington for more money to maintain their roads so nothing changed. Abolishing any Dept sounds good but what are you going to replace it with. As long as we have an Interstate System that traverses all states there will be a need for the DOT.

A good start would be to axe as many direct government employees as possible at all levels, fed, state, county and city. People employed by government have no incentive to work efficiently, do a good job or complete that job in a timely manner. Every possible type of job needs to be contracted out, creating competition for the work, with none of this PC preferred minority contractor BS, just the best individual/company for the job. The government agencies may have to hire/keep some people to over see things and ensure they get done, they may have to keep or hire a few people to work out contractual requirements and bid process but even most of this could be contracted out as well. A private contractor is going to require performance from his employees and will get the same amount of work done for far less money. The former gov employees would be in the perfect position to start a company and contract work from the gov as they already have experience in that capacity, the responceability to run a profitable company while at the same time doing a good job would be on them.

I believe the savings and bang for the buck increase would be substantial from a system like this. The gov talks about more revenue, cut SS, cut medicare etc. but they never once consider trimming the fat from their own ranks. Every part of the private sector has had layoffs due to this economy, but the gov just keeps on hiring.

I worked for a state agency that did remodel work on the states office buildings, the amount of work we were expected to get done each day was a fraction of what was expected of me working for a private contractor.

An individual who works for government will be loyal to the government that provides them an easy job, their loyalty is not to the tax payer whose money pays their salary, most I have dealt with have an air of superiority over the citizen/subjects they deal with and are very much in need of re-education, loss of the cushy job and a big dose of reality, when they have to live like the rest of the people in this county.

Doc Sarvis: I agree that the EPA should not be eliminated, however, I do think that Congress has to put a stop to some of the idiotic legislation of late. Issues like required mileage for vehicles set at an impossible rate, incandescent light bulbs, standards on pollution which eliminate power companies coal burning, etc.

I do not like the new light bulbs. They provide poor light and do not last as long as they state they do. If a person did the math, a hybrid car with the cost of purchase and that battery that must be replaced is more expensive than a gas powered vehicle that gets good mileage over the life of the vehicle. The same goes for Natural gas powered vehicles. $5,000.00 to convert a Honda for example when it gets about that much on a gas powered Honda. There is a clean burning coal now being used by power companies and eliminating a plentiful and cheap resource is not intelligent.

The EPA has been a stick in the mud regarding domestic resources in oil and gas for some time now and the smart thing to do in this changing world is to tap those resources now in order for our economy to recover and also for our security. Simply, the EPA should not have the authority to implement change with the approval of Congress.

Dept of energy doesn’t do anything except cause our appliance prices to rise with thier ridiculous requirements on energy saving. Then look at the stupid light bulb were supposed to use. Went out and bought me enough of the old style light bulbs to last until I die and my kids inherit them. LOL
There are all kinds of gov’t agencies that couild be closed, but they want that control over us and they will never even let go of one of them.

Well, kicking the DOT to the curb would be a good start, but why stop there? Culling government buracracies is a target rich environment. Let’s also look at the EPA, Department of Education, Americorp, etc, etc.

And shouldn’t outfits like FEMA, DHS and others be re-scrutinized or re-tasked?

The list goes on to infinity. Awe, the hell with it, just chitcan the whole guvment and start over.

And while we’re at it, let’s expose Political Correctness for what it really is, what it was designed to do. Further the cause of the Marxist Socialist to bring down western capitalism.

That will be enough for one day, tommorow we’ll focus on something else.