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Jan 28, 2009

Truckers Battle * USA - Over Green

Washington,DC,USA -Traffic World, by Thomas L. Gallagher -27 Jan 2009: -- An organization representing large trucking corporations offered recommendations for environmental sustainability. An organization representing small business truckers thinks those suggestions move in the wrong direction... The American Trucking Associations on Jan. 28 presented arguments in testimony before the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in favor of longer/heavier truck and trailer combinations as well as government mandates for speed limiters on truck engines... The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association believes "those things have nothing to do with making trucking more 'green' and everything to do with adding more 'green' to the pockets of large corporations," said OOIDA Executive Vice President, Todd Spencer. OOIDA contends effective environmental solutions begin with addressing inefficiencies in the supply chain such as time and fuel wasted by truckers waiting to be loaded or unloaded and the amount of empty miles truckers must drive... (Publisher Note: Please hear this "argentine's pampa" speech: "when siblings fight amidst, they are eaten by outsiders")

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