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[quote user="VPayne"]<p>In the minds of the ATA they have won the battle to prevent STAR solutions from creating Truck Only toll roads as a solution to congestion on the I-81 interstate corridor as they would have to pay $0.37/mile in tolls. This despite the fact that $1.5 Billion was to be given as a grant for the project.</p> <p><a href="http://http://www.logisticstoday.com/displayStory.asp?S=1&sNO=8221&MLC=Navigation/SC_Truckload&OASKEY=BreakingNews">http://http://www.logisticstoday.com/displayStory.asp?S=1&sNO=8221&MLC=Navigation/SC_Truckload&OASKEY=BreakingNews</a> </p> <p>But what is the ATA solution? The folks on the other side of the debate see rail investment in an "open access" faster intermodal freight technoloby as the solution, something like CPR's Expressway. <a href="http://www.railsolution.org/">http://www.railsolution.org/</a></p> <p>I suppose my take on it is an intermodal technology that allows over the road drivers to load the trailer onto the train is what is needed, to really reduce the yard labor and time for the transfer. Any thoughts? I tried to search the archives for a relevant thread but found none.</p>[/quote]<br><br>Not a surprise that ATA was appalled by this; it would open a back-door that DOTs would pry open to apply truck use fees even on non-dedicated toll roads, establish a precedent to requiring trucks to pay their own way on their own infrastructure everywhere, and generally ruin the nice open-access taxpayer-paid highway system that they now enjoy at pennies on the dollar. Something about "winning the battle and losing the war."<br><br>S. Hadid<br>
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