Peter de Bruyn Kops says:

>I see a certification program causing harm in several ways:
 >1) if it discourages nonstandard management practices and innovation, the 
industry loses.
 >2) it will give plaintiffs' lawyers a stick to beat us with, including 
commercials who see no knowledge benefit from going through certification
 >3) it could easily morph into a licensing requirement and restrict entry
 >4) ABF has limited resources and there are other projects with higher 
benefit-cost ratio

He is absolutely correct.  Those risks, however unquantifiable, are real, 
and the potential benefits are minuscule, if not invisible.

Walter Weller
Wakefield, Louisiana
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