“ THEY SAID IT”
“Raise the damn tax, let’s get on with it”
—Maverick’s Chairman and CEO Steve Williams speaking at a White House Business Council Roundtable on transportation infrastructure and raising the fuel tax, which has not been raised in 20 years, to fund the Highway Trust Fund
“While every fatality on our highways is a tragedy, your piece painted a picture where every fatality in a truck-involved crash was the fault of the truck driver. This is just
simply not true.” —President and CEO of ATA Bill Graves in a letter to CNBC regarding the show Collision Course: Investigating the Trucking Industry about the truckers at fault in fatal truck wrecks and an industry with a too-high tolerance for highway accidents.
“Congress is actually
reflecting what people want. People want to have a federal (transportation)
program and they don’t want to pay for it.”
—Joshua Schank, president and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation, a transportation think tank, commenting on Congress’ indecision about solving the Highway Trust Fund insolvency problem.
“I feel like I’m in a dream.”
—2014 National Truck Driving Grand Champion Jeffery Langenhahn at the awards banquet for the NTDC in Pittsburgh.
“WOMEN ARE GAINING MOMENTUM
AS THEIR PRESENCE AS PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS BECOMES MORE VIABLE.”
—Ellen Voie, president of the Women in Trucking Association, said of the record number (11) of women drivers competing in the 2014 National Truck Driving Championships in Pittsburgh.
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