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OPINION: Regulation Fever! * USA - Now It’s Trucks
Downturn? What downturn? The Obama administration has moved to load massive new costs on yet another industry at a time when American businesses can least afford it
New York,NY,USA -N.R.O., by Henry Payne -June 07, 2010: -- The transportation sector is hit particularly hard in economic swoons, but this tone-deaf administration is now releasing its “earth-friendly” pit bulls on the trucking industry. Obama has ordered NHTSA to begin work on meeting a federal law requiring mpg standards for heavy-duty trucks for the first time ever... Trucking industry leaders looked none too happy flanking the president at his announcement, but in a Washington NHTSA’s presence is a concession to truckers who lobbied hard against EPA (which has no obligation to take costs into account) setting the rules... Ironically, federal particulate-reduction regulations enacted in 2003 have “decreased pollutants at a cost to fuel economy,” says Clayton Boyce of the American Trucking Association. That mandate added $30,000 in costs to a typical $125,000 truck... Unlike the automotive sector gas mileage is paramount to truckers... Steve Graham, a spokesman for Schneider, a major hauler, says that one-tenth of one mpg saved saves his firm $10 million a year... But now that Washington bureaucrats are inside the trucker’s cab, it will only get more uncomfortable...* Improving Fuel Efficiency
Washington,DC,USA -Transport Topics -June 7 , 2010: -- President Obama’s recent announcement that he was kicking off a major effort to improve the fuel efficiency of commercial vehicles was welcome news to the trucking industry... But it was hardly a surprise... Officials at American Trucking Associations, some fleet executives and leaders at several of the largest trucking supply companies have been involved for some time in discussions with administration officials to help the White House shape this landmark policy... We all have seen the outline of the program now, but the really hard work is just beginning: crafting a plan to significantly increase fuel efficiency while at the same time ensuring that the nation’s goods are delivered in a timely, efficient and cost-effective manner...
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