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Prognosis - USA - Highways face crushing weight of a million more trucks by 2016
Think the highways are getting crowded with 18-wheelers? Just you wait... Shreveport,LA,USA -The Shreveport Times, by Anubhav Tagore -Sept 14, 2006: -- ... One million more of the big rigs are expected to ply the nation's highways by 2016, up from 2.7 million operating today, according to American Trucking Associations... "It's a big concern of the industry as a whole," said BJ Gorman, president of Tango Transport Inc., headquartered in Shreveport... A number of reasons are behind the expected increase: a strengthening economy, inventory advantages of using the road, and new rules that prohibit drivers from doing more than 11 hours a day and 70 hours in an eight-day period... "The new hours and service rules from the DOT (Department of Transportation) ... - it cuts down on their (drivers) productivity. So, where it used to take me a 100 trucks to run 'x' amount of business, now it takes me a 150," said Gorman... (Photo Gannett News Service, by Bill Clark -- Jeff DuBois, 41, gets back in his truck after taking a break July 24 at a Maryland rest stop off Interstate 95 between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore)
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