Transport Policy * USA - A Chairman Makes Trucking’s Case for Highway Bill at Congressional Hearing

"The trucking industry needs a new surface transportation bill"

Washington,DC,USA -Transport Topics -30 March 2011: ...  American Trucking Associations Chairman, Barbara Windsor, told a congressional panel Tuesday that the trucking industry needs a new surface transportation bill, with a focus on highways, as soon as possible... Windsor, president of Hahn Transportation, New Market, Md., said “our current highway system no longer meets our needs”, speaking before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s highways and transit subcommittee... Windsor said the next highway funding authorization should fund non-highway items like transit from the General Fund, rather than fund that with fuel tax receipts, and should maintain the prohibition on tolls on currently untolled interstates...