Trucking News: ATA Wants a 20 cent Fuel Tax To Fix Roads

[Mike]

The American Trucking Associations has launched a new campaign with television and digital ads over the next two months to highlight the need for more infrastructure investment in roads and bridges nationally.

"The decay of our roads and bridges simply can't wait any longer," said Chris Spear, president and CEO of ATA in a phone call with reporters Wednesday.

The campaign drive will begin in Washington, D.C., but also include other markets as the trucking association seeks to get Congress to pass an infrastructure bill with funding to address the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund.

Spear said the trucking industry loses $74.5 billion a year just in the amount of time truckers spend sitting in traffic delays or stoppages. The average commuter will spend $1,600 a year in wasted time, fuel or vehicle damage because of decayed roads as well.

ATA backs legislation that would increase federal fuel taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel 20 cents a gallon (five cents a year over a four-year period). That would generate $340 billion more in infrastructure spending.

Trucking Group Pushes Congress to Act on Infrastructure

 

[Rigjockey]

How much more are taxpayers expected to afford?

Since when did the ATA get into the infrastructure business?

Oh that's right, they are funded by mega carriers that can afford the extra tax while the megas try to push out the liitle guy.

 

[Ontario Outlaw]

**** the ATA

 

[Duck]

Anybody who lobbies for higher taxes instead of accountability for the wasteful spending of the money they already steal from us, deserves to be slowly lowered into sulfuric acid feet first while hanging from fish hooks through the torso that were inserted in such a way as to miss all the vital organs.

 

[r3gulator3]

Higher taxes to line the pockets of politicians and not go to support infastructure. **** the ATA they got no clue what truckers want or need. Created by Werner. Because Werner felt it unfair they had to have AOBRD. So they created their own lobby group to **** everyone else. The ATA are Scumbags and need to crawl into a hole with lit dynamite.

 

[gearjammer]

they aren't called the anti trucking association for nothing

 

[Duck]

The ATA are Scumbags and need to crawl into a hole with lit dynamite.

I gotta disagree. Dynamite would kill them way too quickly. They need to suffer.

 

[mndriver]

People did a bit of research.....


You'd realize between 1976 and 2010, the US economy lost the equivalent of 3200 Exxon Val Dez tankers worth of fuel tax. Just a couple billion dollars.

 

[Gdjjr]

Looks like the ATA proposal doesn't set well with real people- politicians on the other hand ain't people never mind being real.

 

[Mike]

Kind of odd to support a tax increase that is higher by itself that the average maintenance cost for the truck paying the tax.

 

[mndriver]

I see the need for it.


Different than saying I agree with it.

I see a bigger need the charge a hybrid for the road miles they drive long before increasing a gas/fuel tax.

 

[Electric Chicken]

I see the need for it.


Different than saying I agree with it.

I see a bigger need the charge a hybrid for the road miles they drive long before increasing a gas/fuel tax.

I see the need for responsible spending.

The money is already there. They just keep spending it on fun stuff.