Executives of more than 2,000 " trucking industry " studies major problems faced by American truckers. U.S. Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) announced the issue in Conference Management Association and the American Transportation Expo held October 16 in Boston.
Among the topics on the list of transportation safety, protecting the environment, the cost of insurance and the absence of conductors; but the main concern is the high cost of diesel and road congestion.
According to Jim Stanley, president of the MRTA, their results also show that the strategy will help Trucking Association (ATA) American approach to take a greater role in maintaining the paper industry Transport USA.
Each number has a certain level of complexity that is changing constantly. ATRI is very valuable information because it helps determine what the most important issue for operators and solutions that ATA should look.
Rising oil prices led to a record increase in the price of diesel. With the results of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have exceeded $ 3 per gallon.
Congestion has the misuse of federal highway funds to states outside the skills to build new roads. Bill Graves, president of the American Trucking Association, said: Since 1980, traffic has doubled, but road capacity has increased by only 3 percent. The current road is full of traffic. Today's economy requires more trucks to transport more goods.
Analysts predict that by 2016 the trucking industry will haul 13 billion tons of goods, 3 billion more than 2004000000 EUR, when a truck dragging 10 billion tons.
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