Gm520 Department of Transportation

Week 2 Homework – GM520.

1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points)

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION– I Ship products on a day to day basis coast to coast so my truck drivers delivering my product interests me.

This will affect me as a customer as experienced truck drivers are very important with good driver’s records and are hard to come by.

2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points)

This proposal rule amends the commercial driver's license (CDL) knowledge and skills testing standards and establishes new minimum Federal standards for

States to issue the commercial learner's permit

3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your comment. (10 points)

My comment on this does not affect the situation of being a good driver. It appears they are just finalizing a more sensible way to achieve CDL. This is important to the fact that a good driver is important when driving such a large vehicle as there are many safety standards that need to be followed.

I wish to have them take into consideration of proper guidelines of achieving this license as good experience is crucial.

4. Provide the "deadline" by which the public comment must be made. (If the date has already passed, please provide when the deadline...