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* USA - Are longer, heavier trucks the solution to freight capacity crisis?
National Industrial Transportation League's (NITL) Spring Policy Forum notebook
Washington,DC,USA -Logistics Management (Newton,MA), by John D. Schulz -March 28, 2007: -- There is a growing pile of freight forecasts over the next decade or so and the bottom line on all those reports is simple... “It is up and up and up,” said Bill Graves, president of the American Trucking Associations, told a group of 75 shippers at the National Industrial Transportation League's (NITL) Spring Policy forum held just outside of Washington earlier this week. “There’s going to be enough freight for everybody. How the pie is sliced up really doesn’t matter. We’re obviously going to have a lot more trucks out on the road.”.. Here are some of the forecasts: Commercial trucks to grow by 40 percent over the next 10 years. Intermodal growth forecast to increase by 80 percent over the next decade. ATA forecasts a need for 110,000 new drivers by 2014, with about half of those needed just to keep up with economic growth. Over the next decade, there are forecasts of 30 percent increases in freight demand across all modes...
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