Safer Travel On the Road
- 21 Year Old Drinking Age: Senator Lautenberg wrote the law that set a national 21 year old drinking law, which has helped save thousands of lives and prevented many more from grievous injury (Public Law No. 98-363).
Senator Lautenberg at a press conference where he introduced a bill to keep dangerously large and heavy trucks off our roads, explaining how their size and weight can threaten safety and damage our roads and bridges. The Senator is joined by Jane Mathis, whose 23-year-old son David was killed in a tractor trailer crash, and Todd Spencer from the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association. (April 1, 2009)
- .08 Drunk Driving Standard: President Clinton signed this landmark drunk driving bill into law in 2000. The Lautenberg law required that all states establish .08 blood alcohol content as the minimum threshold for drunk driving (Public Law No. 106-346). In June 2008, another Lautenberg law took effect to reduce drunk driving by requiring states to change laws so repeat drunk drivers will have ignition interlocks (which prevent a vehicle from starting if a sensor detects alcohol on a driver’s breath) installed on their cars and trucks (Public Law No. 110-244).
- Triple-Trailer Trucks: Senator Lautenberg wrote the law, banning triple-trailer "killer trucks" from New Jersey's and most other states' roads (Public Law No. 102-240).
