Alabama, Alaska act to lower minimum age for in-state truckers

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{"text":"Action taken in two states is expected to get younger people behind the wheel of large vehicles.\n\n\nOne new law in Alabama lowers the minimum age to possess a Class A commercial driver's license from 21 to 18.\n\n\nPreviously HB479, the new minimum age law affects intrastate driving only.\n\n\nDrivers under 21 still are prohibited from transporting hazardous materials or oversized loads.\n\n\nAdvocates say the goal is to attract people to the trucking industry. They cite fears that young people in Alabama will have already chosen a career by the time they are old enough to legally drive truck.\n\n\nThe rule change takes effect in Feb. 2020.\n\n\nSimilar in Alaska, a bill headed to the governor's desk would lower the legal minimum age to possess an intrastate CDL.\n\n\nAlaska law now requires people to be 19 years old before they can become licensed to drive within the state.\n\n\nSB75 lowers the minimum age requirement to 18 years.\n\n\nhttp://www.landlinemag.com/Story.aspx?StoryID=74386#.XQZmQIgzbIU ","videos":"[]","link":"{}","pics":"[]","canComment":true}

678033

{"replyTo":"","text":"Instead of attracting younger drivers, they need better incentives for what they have like more parking and better access to bathrooms and water. We need healthier people not more people.","replyToPid":0}

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678033 发表于 2019-06-17 06:28:39 Instead of attracting younger drivers, they need better incentives for what they have like more parking and better access to bathrooms and water. We need healthier people not more people.

","text":"we also need more women, not younger men.","replyToPid":122790}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"I'm glad I'm getting closer to retirement.  But it still doesn't help the general public.  21 is really to young.  But. Those kids are Donna think they know everything.  I'm afraid it's gonna be a mess","replyToPid":0}

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{"replyTo":"","text":"PA looking to do the same.","replyToPid":0}