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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA
* Freight and productivity low, but demand to pick up
USA -e Trucker, by Linda Longton -7 June 2007: -- “In less than a year, we went from tight capacity to overcapacity,” said Bob Costello, chief economist and vice president for the American Trucking Associations, speaking to attendees at the CCJ Spring Symposium in Tuscaloosa, Ala... There are up to 120,000 too many Class 8 trucks on the road today, said Costello... The country has two choices in dealing with overburdened roadways, he said. Either move toward taking the federal government out of the funding process, which means more privatization and more tolls, or pay higher taxes. One of the biggest challenges is to get state and federal governments to spend fuel tax money on highway capacity instead of other things, he said... A possible way to fight congestion would be to haul more freight on fewer trucks. Language in a recent energy bill would allow an increase in truck weight to 97,000 lbs with an additional axle... Given productivity constraints, “the biggest challenge is not the slowdown we’ve got going on right now,” Costello said. “It’s are you going to be able to haul 31 percent more freight in 2017 than you can now?”...
* Former Kansas Governor, American Trucking Associations Chief, Named Chairman of Highway Users
Washington,DC,USA -PRNewswire/USNewswire -June 7, 2007: -- The American Highway Users Alliance announced today that former Kansas Governor Bill Graves would become chairman of the group's Board of Directors, effective immediately... Graves remains president and CEO of the American Trucking Associations (ATA)...
* Swift's Mexican subsidiary links to ACE system
USA -eTrucker -7 June 2007: -- Swift Transportation Mexican subsidiary Trans-Mex has become one of the first Mexican trucking companies to deploy a trade processing system developed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection that accelerates cross-border commerce while improving security at U.S. borders...
* Schneider National adopts Pro-Tread
USA -eTrucker/CCJ -7 June 2007: -- Schneider National, a provider of transportation, logistics and intermodal services, recently announced it signed an agreement with Instructional Technologies Inc. (ITI) to provide Pro-Tread Driver Training to its entire fleet... Schneider is the largest truckload carrier to adopt this program. Pro-Tread is ITI’s Internet version of its original Tread-1 (“Trucker Education and Development”) program...
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