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ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 17, 2011  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In today's public listening session  on the  Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's recently released  hours-of-service proposal, American Trucking Associations Senior Vice  President Dave Osiecki told the agency to put facts and data before politics.
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"Policy changes  must be based on sound research and data, not pressure or politics,"  Osiecki, ATA's senior vice president of policy and regulatory affairs,  told FMCSA officials, "and their benefits must outweigh the costs," he  said. "The proposed HOS changes do not pass the test on any of these  principles."

Osiecki noted  that those pillars are at the core of the Obama administration's recent  push to improve the regulatory process, yet are ignored by FMCSA in this  proposal.

In an attempt  to justify one component of its proposal, FMCSA leans on a study of just  12 people conducted at an in-residence laboratory and released just  weeks before the agency's proposal.  The study itself recommends  "validation of the study findings . . . in a real-world field study,"  Osiecki said.

FMCSA, Osiecki  said, also "relies on a completely different, less sophisticated method"  in its regulatory impact analysis than it had in the past in order to  calculate the costs and dubious benefits of the proposed changes.

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Forecast: Capacity Shortfall into 2013

From Overdrive online
February 10, 2011

A combination of the trucking industry trying to catch up with the economic recovery and adapting to government regulations that are still being developed will extend a capacity shortage through 2013, a trucking economist said at an online seminar Feb. 10.Image by Getty Images via @daylife

The shortfall will peak above 250,000 units in 2012 but continue at about 150,000 units in 2013, predicted Noel Perry, a senior consultant with FTR Associates and principal of Transportation Fundamentals. He said the industry is pursuing productivity increases through greater utilization of existing equipment, and miles per tractor were up more than 10 percent in 2010. Without that productivity improvement, “this crisis could be twice as bad, peaking at around 400,000 units,” he said.

Perry added that capacity utilization has recovered to above 90 percent, but rate increases haven’t kept pace. He said carriers are more productive and profitable, without increasing rates much. “From now on if a [carrier] wants to handle more freight, he is going to have to hire drivers and buy equipment,” he said.
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Small Businesses’ Confidence Hits Three-Year High

From Transport Topics
February 8, 2011

A survey released Tuesday showed that confidence among small businesses hit a three-year high, Bloomberg reported.

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The National Federation of Independent Business optimism index rose to 94.1 in January, the highest since the recession began in December 2007 as the outlook for sales and profits improved, the group said Tuesday.

The reading was lower than the average 100.7 during the last expansion that started in November 2001, Bloomberg reported.

Small businesses are defined as independent enterprises that employ up to 500 people.
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