ATA Touts USDOT’s Truck Parking Agenda

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American Trucking Associations just lately highlighted the U.S. Division of Transportation’s deal with issues associated to truck parking.

The division awarded grants that particularly sought to develop entry to parking for truck drivers across the nation. “We thank Secretary [Pete] Buttigieg and the administration for his or her ongoing dedication to America’s skilled truck drivers. The secretary has acknowledged how essential the problem of truck parking is to him and his division, and we’re extraordinarily grateful that he’s delivering on that intention,” ATA President Chris Spear mentioned Sept. 29.

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Spear emphasised funding that was accepted within the $1 trillion Infrastructure Funding and Jobs Act.

“This difficulty is crucial for each freeway security and provide chain effectivity,” he mentioned, “and we stay up for continued partnership with USDOT as it really works to make sure IIJA funds proceed flowing towards this pressing want.”

We’re extraordinarily grateful to @SecretaryPete and @USDOT for delivering on their intention to develop #truckparking capability throughout the nation. This difficulty is crucial for freeway security, provide chain effectivity, driver wellbeing, and environmental safety.

— American Trucking (@TRUCKINGdotORG) September 29, 2022

Spear continued, “This difficulty is of explicit significance for girls drivers, who repeatedly cite the shortage of protected parking choices as a deterrent to extra girls getting into the sector. Investing in these tasks and making certain all drivers have prepared entry to protected and well-lit parking services 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.”

As a part of the division’s Infrastructure for Rebuilding America grants, Florida and Tennessee just lately obtained practically $40 million for truck parking enlargement tasks. In a letter to ATA, the division expressed a dedication to proceed to facilitate entry to parking for the ladies and men working business automobiles.

Buttigieg wrote, “We’ll use each alternative to coach state and native companions in regards to the eligibility of federal funding for truck parking and suggest states work with non-public sector truck cease operators and the trucking group within the siting and improvement of truck parking tasks.”

The secretary added, “The division will proceed to supply technical help and boards to carry collectively private and non-private stakeholders to deal with this important difficulty.”

Within the American Transportation Analysis Institute’s “Essential Points within the Trucking Business,” truck parking considerations ranked fifth in 2021. The group gives an annual chronicle of business issues

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