* DC - Truckload group splits with ATA policy on truck size and weight issue
--- In a behind-the-scenes split that highlights the divergent interests between truckload carriers and the less-than-truckload (LTL) industry, the Truckload Carriers Association has officially split from the larger American Trucking Associations’ official policy position on truck sizes and weights... During its recent convention in Las Vegas, the TCA officially changed its policy stance. It is endorsing the current five-axle, 80,000-pound weight restriction. Since 2011, the TCA and ATA had been united in seeking a five-axle, 88,000-pound weight limit or six-axle, 97,000-pound limit that is found elsewhere in North America... At issue is TCA blowback from a failed lobbying effort fueled by FedEx Chairman Frederick Smith to try and allow twin 33-foot trailers for the LTL sector, a change from the current twin 28-foot legal limit. ATA lobbied extensively for that change late last year. That change would have benefited FedEx, UPS and a handful of LTL carriers, but would have resulted in little benefit for TL carriers, which largely utilize single 53-foot trailers rather than the twin “pups” preferred by LTL carriers... Now, the group representing the truckload industry is officially changing its position on truck size and weights, sticking with the current 80,000-pound limit that has been in place for more than two decades...
Washington, DC, USA - Logistic Management, by John D. Schulz - April 25, 2016Labels: truckmakers news USA, weight limits
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