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A front-seat look * USA - Chinese get, at U.S. trucking
State Line,PA,USA -The Hagerstown Morning Herald (Hagerstown,MD), by DON AINES -16 Jan 2008: -- ... Sponsored by the China Road Transport Association (CRTA), the delegation saw how Con-way manages freight from customer service, dispatching and tracking, to the 164-door loading area where forklifts moved pallets of goods into the trailers for shipment. Service Center Manager Steven Sibbio said the facility handles an average of 3.2 million pounds of freight a day... China's government understands the importance of transportation to economic growth, Warren Hoemann, senior vice president of American Trucking Associations said, spending $100 billion a year on road construction. By contrast, the most recent U.S. federal highway bill appropriated $286 billion over five years for construction and maintenance, he said... Yang Xue Feng, vice director of the Liao Ning Province Transportation Management Bureau, asked through an interpreter why the drivers all appeared to be 40 or older; about their education; and how pay differs between supervisors, drivers and dock workers... As for the age of drivers, Con-way Chief Operating Officer David Miller said, younger drivers usually do pickup and delivery, while older drivers with families prefer fixed routes and regular schedules. There are about 200,000 trucking companies in China, ranging from firms with thousands of trucks to companies with just one, said CRTA Chairman Mingde Yao...The delegation also met with officials at the American Trucking Associations' headquarters in Arlington, Va., and with U.S. Department of Transportation officials... (Photo credit: Yvette May / Staff Photographer - During a tour of Con-way Freight in State Line, Pa., on Tuesday morning, members of the China Road Transport Association discuss Con-way's highly engineered freight operations)Labels: visitors
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