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Keep on Trucking - USA - Businesses fear freight will be stuck in traffic
The U.S. economy won't be able to keep on trucking unless America's highway system is expanded to accommodate the boom in freight traffic...
Washington,DC,USA -Dayton Business Journal (Dayton,OH), by Kent Hoover -Sept 18, 2006: -- That's the message business groups are sending Congress a year after it passed a $286 billion bill funding transportation improvements through 2009... That legislation "barely maintains" America's existing road network, says Douglas G. Duncan, president and CEO of FedEx Freight Corp. "It certainly won't expand it."... Expansion is necessary because the U.S. Department of Transportation projects freight tonnage will increase by 70 percent by 2020. Most of this freight now travels over roads because shipping by truck is faster and more reliable than rail, Duncan says... By 2025, there will be twice as many cars and trucks on the road as there are now, he says... Through its highway bill, Congress created a commission to look at the nation's surface transportation needs and how to fund them... The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is working to quantify the bottom-line impact of freight congestion on businesses and will use that information to "motivate real change" when Congress takes up its next highway bill, Janet Kavinoky, transportation lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, says...
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