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SPEED LIMITS * USA - Drive at 55 Meets Stiff Headwinds
Washington,DC,USA -Logistics Management, by John D. Schulz -18 Aug 2008: -- It’s an uphill fight, but some powerful people in Washington want you to slow down on the highways. That has huge ramifications for shippers, who for decades have shifted their distribution systems to rely on next- and second-day deliveries that might be affected if the “drive at 55” program can gain some legislative speed... In an election year, this effort is probably stuck in the slow lane of Congressional priorities. But a new President installed with a new Congress next year may want to once again ticket the entire country for speeding... But because long-haul drivers are paid by the mile, any reduction in speeds means a reduction in paychecks as well. That is why driver groups such as the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association and America’s Independent Truckers’ Association, oppose any move to mandate lower speeds...
“We got enough regulation in this industry,” Larry Daniel, a spokesman for America’s Independent Truckers’ Association, recently told the Washington Times. “We don’t need the government to step into our business and cause us any more undue hardship”... Like a lot of issues, the American Trucking Associations and the independent drivers’ groups see the issue differently. That ATA recently petitioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to limit the maximum speed of large trucks at the time of manufacture to no more than 68 miles per hour... (Photo by Jamie Rector/Bloomberg News)
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