Nicholas Geti wrote: > Article from the NY Times. Taking trucks off the highway will make traveling > better for the rest of us. Rising fuel prices are causing bankruptcies in the > trucking industry. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/business/27ship.html?th&emc=th > More than 45,000 vehicles, or 3 percent of the tractor fleet, have > disappeared from the highways since early last year, according to America's > Commercial Transportation Research in Columbus, Ind. That surpasses the last > great shakeout, in the early 1980s, when deregulation, along with a > recession, high interest rates and the second Arab oil embargo, took out > 33,000 tractors.
I'm sure there's a price to pay somewhere (in terms of a surcharge for the increased costs) but I'm one who likes the idea of less trucks on the road---that means less emissions, and some of those trucks are horrible in terms of the black smoke they pollute into the area. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
