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Optimistic’ views * USA - Follow Election Day
Key lawmakers and officials with the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association are expressing hope that a change in the country’s administration will mean a change for the better for highway users and truckers
Grain Valley,MO,USA -Land Line Magazine -November 5, 2008: -- “Our new president is facing more and bigger challenges than in any time in my memory on many issues of tremendous importance,” said OOIDA Executive Vice President Todd Spencer. “We are very optimistic an Obama administration will take a realistic look at the Bush administration’s ill-conceived Mexican truck pilot project and end it until safety and security issues with Mexican trucks are actually resolved... We are also very optimistic a new administration will come up with a better method for funding highways and bridges than putting tolls on them or putting them up for sale.”... As recently as mid-October during a speech in Toledo, OH, Obama pledged to create 2 million jobs by rebuilding the nation’s crumbling roads, schools and bridges. That kind of commitment to the nation’s infrastructure is something that key lawmakers on Capitol Hill asked for as recently as Election Day...
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