Today, the biggest obstacle that stands between us and the places we work, live and play is thousands of miles of crumbling roads, highways and bridges that are creating bottlenecks and gridlock.
The typical commuter spends 42 hours each year sitting in traffic, and motorists now pay an annual average of $1,600 in vehicle repairs, wasted gas and lost time - all as a result of our failing infrastructure.
The trucking industry loses 1.2 billion hours of productivity every year because of traffic congestion, which is the equivalent of 425,000 truck drivers sitting idle for an entire year.
America's truckers believe that our nation's roads and bridges should be paid for by the users that travel on them every day.
While trucks make up just 4% of the vehicles on our nation's highways, trucking already pays for nearly half of the Highway Trust Fund - and we're willing to pay more.
This is new and real revenue for our nation's roads and bridges, not fake funding like toll roads, which cost up to.35 cents a dollar for tolling schemes - the very definition of highway robbery.
Too often, lawmakers get caught up in the politics, pay-fors and big price tags of fixing our infrastructure, but they often forget the human toll and the wasted time and money that are being bled every day on the roads.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/03/the_human_toll_of_our_crumbling_infrastructure_139939.html
The typical commuter spends 42 hours each year sitting in traffic, and motorists now pay an annual average of $1,600 in vehicle repairs, wasted gas and lost time - all as a result of our failing infrastructure.
The trucking industry loses 1.2 billion hours of productivity every year because of traffic congestion, which is the equivalent of 425,000 truck drivers sitting idle for an entire year.
America's truckers believe that our nation's roads and bridges should be paid for by the users that travel on them every day.
While trucks make up just 4% of the vehicles on our nation's highways, trucking already pays for nearly half of the Highway Trust Fund - and we're willing to pay more.
This is new and real revenue for our nation's roads and bridges, not fake funding like toll roads, which cost up to.35 cents a dollar for tolling schemes - the very definition of highway robbery.
Too often, lawmakers get caught up in the politics, pay-fors and big price tags of fixing our infrastructure, but they often forget the human toll and the wasted time and money that are being bled every day on the roads.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/03/the_human_toll_of_our_crumbling_infrastructure_139939.html
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