Bipartisan legislation has been reintroduced to better track serious crashes and fatalities involving contracted mail trucks toting USPS mail.
Reps. Gerald E. Connolly, D-VA, and. James Comer, R-Ky., introduced the Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act.
The bill follows findings from the postal IG that USPS lacks written policies for tracking accidents involving its freight contractors. According to a Wall Street Journal report, Postal Service trucking operations frequently bypass key safety regulations, including hiring carriers with poor safety records and imposing delivery schedules that push drivers beyond legal service hours. The Department of Transportation has flagged 466 trucking contractors for high violation rates in just two years.
