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Merge Lawmakers Could Consider Gas Tax Hike, After Gas Tax Holiday Fails
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WASHINGTON — The political vision of a summer gas tax holiday died a quick death in Congress, losing to a view that federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel — far from dropping — will have to go up if they go anywhere.

Despite calls from the presidential campaign trail for a Memorial Day-to-Labor Day tax freeze, lawmakers quickly concluded — with a prod from the construction industry — that having $9 billion less to spend on highways could create a pre-election specter of thousands of lost jobs.

Now, lawmakers quietly are talking about raising fuel taxes by a dime from the current 18.4 cents a gallon on gasoline and 24.3 cents on diesel fuel.
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WiseOne's Comments, I AGREE with a HUGE gas tax hike on CARS...but, trucks should have NONE to bring down prices! IF these buttholes want to drive around in their SUV's, incessantly, make them PAY! Truckers have no choice but to deliver our goods! These buttholes I see driving around all the time with SUV's, boats, etc., do have a choice and they SHOULD pay big time for doing it! I say make American's HURT BAD by tearing their wallets apart on gas...but leave truckers alone!
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WiseOne's Comments, I AGREE with a HUGE gas tax hike on CARS...but, trucks should have NONE to bring down prices! IF these buttholes want to drive around in their SUV's, incessantly, make them PAY! Truckers have no choice but to deliver our goods! These buttholes I see driving around all the time with SUV's, boats, etc., do have a choice and they SHOULD pay big time for doing it! I say make American's HURT BAD by tearing their wallets apart on gas...but leave truckers alone!
WiseOne, that's pretty idiotic.

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Rail ( getting freight closer) in conjunction with truck transporting which is what intermodel transportation is, may be the answer to many driver complaints about the company's.The railroads can move freight around the country to distribution centers ect. which make the logistics/costs more efficiant. I am sure if i querry this idea i'll come up with information to validate it. Well, does anyone know about this ? A reduction of trucker hours on the road (i.e. safety concerns),high fuel costs and company equipment/road ware and tear, not to mention the driver shortage, would be the major reasons to adopt such a plan. Look, if a newbie ( going to trucking school soon) is thinking about such a model I'm sure the corporate transportation exec's and politicians are. I'll get some info. soon. I know it's around. thanks.....
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Rail ( getting freight closer) in conjunction with truck transporting which is what intermodel transportation is, may be the answer to many driver complaints about the company's.The railroads can move freight around the country to distribution centers ect. which make the logistics/costs more efficiant. I am sure if i querry this idea i'll come up with information to validate it. Well, does anyone know about this ? A reduction of trucker hours on the road (i.e. safety concerns),high fuel costs and company equipment/road ware and tear, not to mention the driver shortage, would be the major reasons to adopt such a plan. Look, if a newbie ( going to trucking school soon) is thinking about such a model I'm sure the corporate transportation exec's and politicians are. I'll get some info. soon. I know it's around. thanks.....
Rail travel and "just in time" delivery schedules don't mesh.
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[LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. this is a web address where the topic was discussed on alternative large scale transportation industry scenarios... pretty informative...
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Rail ( getting freight closer) in conjunction with truck transporting which is what intermodel transportation is, may be the answer to many driver complaints about the company's.The railroads can move freight around the country to distribution centers ect. which make the logistics/costs more efficiant. I am sure if i querry this idea i'll come up with information to validate it. Well, does anyone know about this ? A reduction of trucker hours on the road (i.e. safety concerns),high fuel costs and company equipment/road ware and tear, not to mention the driver shortage, would be the major reasons to adopt such a plan. Look, if a newbie ( going to trucking school soon) is thinking about such a model I'm sure the corporate transportation exec's and politicians are. I'll get some info. soon. I know it's around. thanks.....
This argument has been made several times and, as Ronno pointed out, it just won't make it in today's transportation industry. In many parts of the country (including areas near me) several railways have been removed. Sure this scenario might work in large industrial areas, which is where you see the most intermodal trucks anyway, but in more rural areas where you do see a lot of factories and distribution centers this just isn't feasible. Years ago probably 90% of all the factories and warehouses in America had rail spurs leading right up to their doors. Today I'd say that less than 30% have this capability and probably 40% of all manufacturing and warehousing facilities are more than 150 miles away from a major rail head.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- While the trucking industry in the US calls on Washington to take action to reduce fuel prices, an Associated Press story suggests regulators are actually considering a 10 cent per gallon increase.

Currently, the feds levy a 24.3 cent per gallon fuel tax on diesel. The suggested increase is due to a report from the construction industry that a shortfall in highway spending could result in thousands of job losses.
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