Automotive Trucks information on net.

The American Trucking Associations warned in a September letter to Congress that within a few years there will be an additional 2.3 million trucks mixing with automobile traffic on congested highways. The way to counter this, said ATA, is to give states the power to permit longer, heavier highway rigs to operate within their borders.

The ATA made this request in the form of a letter protesting legislation that it said would "purloin state authority and impose federal truck length and weight limits on the 159,000 miles of interstate and primary highways." Why the ATA would send such a letter was a mystery to some, since it would seem to support the railroads' position that highways are getting dangerously congested and that much truck freight needs to be moved to rail, with the help of the kind of government aid that has long gone to highways.

# posted by Medical Information : 5:56 AM