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Trucking Industry Facing Hard Times

By: Eduardo Solano

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More than 2000 trucking industry executives studied the main

issues that United States truckers face. The American

Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) announced these issues

in the American Trucking Associations Management Conference and

Exhibition held October 16 in Boston.



Among the issues that made the list were trucking security,

environmental protection, insurance costs and the lack of

drivers; but the leading concerns were the high cost of diesel

and highway congestion.



According to Jim Stanley, chairman of the ATRI, the results of

their studies also proposed strategies that will help the

American Trucking Associations (ATA) focus in taking a larger

role in defense of the U.S. trucking industry.



Every issue has a certain level of complexity that tends to

change constantly. The ATRI information is invaluable because it

can determine which problem matters the most to motor carriers

and the solutions that the ATA should seek.



The rise in oil prices caused a record increase in the price of

diesel. With the outcome of hurricanes Katrina and Rita prices

exceeded $3 a gallon.



Highway congestion comes from the misuse of federal highway

funds which disables the states abilities to build new highways.

Bill Graves, president of the American Trucking Associations

said that: Since 1980, highway traffic has doubled, but highway

capacity has increased only 3 percent. Todays highways are

choked with traffic. Todays economy demands more trucks to haul

more freight.



Analysts predicted that in 2016 the trucking industry will

transport 13 billion tons of freight, 3 billion more than in

2004 when truckers hauled 10 billion tons.



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