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* USA - Trucking industry undertaxed by state
Harrisburg,PA,USA -The Patriot News -Nov 30, 2006: -- The Pennsylvania secretary of transportation declared on TV that the state's roads are in poor condition and the only way to fund the necessary repairs is a 12-cent added tax on gasoline... Trucks are all over our roads, big 53-foot trailer-trucks that can haul 19,000 pounds per axle. That's why we have big ruts along Route 72 from Cornwall up through Lebanon City, and there's many more like it... Why isn't the state Legislature going after the trucks? Make them pay because they are ruining out roads? It's because the trucking industry has our state government in their hip pocket...
* Canada - There is such thing as bad press
Canada -Truck News, by James Menzies -1 Dec 2006: -- The old saying ‘There’s no such thing as bad press’ doesn’t necessarily ring true in the trucking industry. This is an industry that has a bad rap – and for the most part, undeservingly so. Negative stories about the trucking industry appear regularly in mainstream newspapers, and unfortunately many of them are not warranted... A reader (thanks, Aaron Sweet!) recently forwarded me a column published in the St. Catharines Standard. I was shocked to read the scathing attack on our industry.Written by Roy Scott, the column blasted truck drivers, categorizing them along with ‘inebriated drivers.’ He suggested law enforcement begin targeting “the jockeys that race these mammoth machines.”... The tirade went on and on and on. Perhaps I should just shrug off such drivel and accept the fact Johnny Four-Wheeler will never come to accept the fact truck drivers are, for the most part, the safest drivers on the highway and the drivers of our economy. But I take these attacks personally, and never get sick of throwing the following stats out there: Accidents involving heavy-duty trucks have decreased over 20% in the past 10 years (despite a steady increase in truck traffic); Only 2% of highway crashes involve tractor-trailers – and of those, the truck driver is at fault less than 20% of the time...
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