ATA thanks Buttigieg for DOT’s consideration to creating extra parking
The American Trucking Associations Thursday thanked the U.S. Division of Transportation for its dedication to increasing the nation’s truck parking capability.
In a letter to ATA President and CEO Chris Spear, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg pledged the Biden Administration’s help for growing the supply of secure parking choices for America’s skilled truck drivers by its Trucking Motion Plan, grant funding beneath the Bipartisan Infrastructure Regulation, and elevated coordination with state departments of transportation and the trucking business.
“We thank Secretary Buttigieg and the administration for his or her ongoing dedication to America’s skilled truck drivers,” mentioned Spear. “The Secretary has said how necessary the problem of truck parking is to him and his division, and we’re extraordinarily grateful that he’s delivering on that intention.”
Spear lately wrote to Buttigieg urging the Division of Transportation to prioritize this subject, which impacts freeway security, driver wellbeing, productiveness, and the surroundings. A USDOT report discovered 98% of drivers often expertise issues discovering secure parking. Research by the American Transportation Analysis Institute have discovered that drivers spend a median of 56 minutes of drive time per day to search out parking, straight costing them about $5,500 in misplaced compensation — or a 12% minimize in annual pay.
In latest days, Florida and Tennessee have been awarded a mixed $37,600,000 in INFRA grant funding by USDOT to increase truck parking capability.
“This subject is of explicit significance for girls drivers, who repeatedly cite the dearth of secure parking choices as a deterrent to extra girls getting into the sector,” Spear mentioned. “Investing in these initiatives and guaranteeing all drivers have prepared entry to secure and well-lit parking amenities is a crucial step in shifting our business’s workforce demographics and empowering extra girls throughout the nation to pursue the rewarding profession alternatives that trucking has to supply.”
