Regulation sets a floor for the race-to-the-bottom. Companies could set high standards, yet they usually meet the bare minimum. Improving standards costs money. Unless it's a requirement, it gets cut.

Regulation create barrier to entry, not about safety. If safety you want, impose high penalty/punishment for reckless behavior.

Everyone believes they're going to be the lucky ones. Simply imposing high costs doesn't deter reckless behavior. People still drive drunk, jaywalk, drive on bald tires, smoke...all activities known to be dangerous.

Regulation creates a barrier, sure - a good barrier is one which requires training, practices, and equipment to promote safety.

imposing high costs doesn't completely remove reckless behavior but it reduce reckless behavior.

Likewise, with high regulation, there still people who drive recklessly.

Regulation creates a barrier, so its not easy for newcomer to enter and compete.

Becoming a good trucker still requires training, practices, and equipment to promote safety regardless of regulation.

>I'm not suggesting less training or lowering standard, I'm suggesting less regulation.

Except you want to remove those regulations that include training and licensure requirements.

Rules already exist to penalize CDl holders for poor driving and they are a higher standard/increased penalties compared to none CDl drivers...what we don’t need is allowing untrained and unlicensed commercial drivers, that in no way will improve driver safety.

>Except you want to remove those regulations that include training and licensure requirements.

yes but the company can still train their trucker as much as they want, the trucker can still get training as much as they want.

>what we don’t need is allowing untrained and unlicensed commercial drivers

These untrained trucker won't get hired, do you think you will want to hire untrained trucker ? Regarding the unlicensed, why not ? provided they can prove that they can do the job well and has good track record ?