Senate Bill to Cut Truck Traffic

[Cybergal]

Senate Bill to Cut Truck Traffic

5/14/09

Transportation Policy and Planning Act would push freight to rails


Democratic leaders on the Senate Commerce Committee are calling for what might be called a reduction in highway freight transportation by 2020.
Chairman John D. Rockefeller, D-W.V., and Sen. Frank Lautenburg, D-N.J., chairman of the surface transportation subcommittee, on Thursday morning filed the Transportation Policy and Planning Act of 2009
The bill is a wish list of policy objectives that the Senate will advocate as Congress drafts a new multi-year surface transportation spending bill.
Senate Bill to Cut Truck Traffic | Journal of Commerce

 

[rebel]

I got a "wish list" for'em.
STOP SPENDING MONEY WE DON'T HAVE.

 

[Cybergal]

I got a "wish list" for'em.
STOP SPENDING MONEY WE DON'T HAVE.

They will never leave the Trucking Industry alone..

 

[Cybergal]

Bill to reduce truck traffic kicking up a lot of dust

Bill to reduce truck traffic kicking up a lot of dust
5/16/09

WASHINGTON — S1036, a bill just introduced in Congress which aims to increase use of non-highway, intermodal freight by 10 percent by 2020 has kicked up a lot of dust lately.


Rail coalitions and other groups are lauding it while trucking groups point out the problem of changing the distribution and supply chain network by which 70 percent of the nation’s goods are moved.
TheTrucker.com - America's Trucking Newspaper

 

[lunachic]

Stupid.......poor planning of rail as it stands now needs addressed befor they even begin to look at the trucking indutries as the cause of.......................
I have seen firetrucks and rescue stuck at rail crossing not being able to make the scene and maybe save a life do to the poor planning of rail and the amount of rail cars they are allowed to haul.

 

[ridermark]

Instead of spendin all these billions to the big companies, who give it out in bonuses, and lavish vacations. Give anyone over 50 who's working 1 million dollars. They HAVE to retire. Also they HAVE to buy a new car. Then they HAVE to buy a new home, or pay off their mortgage. This would help with creating new jobs. Keepin the car industry goin, and helpin out the housing market. If your worried about the taxes. Have your elected congressperson, or Senator pay them with their outrageous pay raises. If they put it on a rail they still have to have a truck deliver it to the stores, or buisnesses. Cuz a train can't stop at a red light.....lol

 

[SilverSurfer]

Here we go again...another over-stepping of their (fed gov't) enumerated power.

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