Questions have been raised about how marine highways, also known as short sea shipping, will impact trucking and longshore jobs.
Many in the trucking industry have been pretty peeved by some remarks made by Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood. … LaHood was blogging about another tactic to get trucks off the road. The goals of the “America’s Marine Highway” program include bypassing congested roads around busy ports and reducing greenhouse gases by putting more freight on short-sea waterways.
What’s a trucker (or a dealer, or a truck manufacturer) to do? How about tooting our horn about what the trucking industry is already doing to help clean up the air and save fuel and reduce our carbon footprint? After all, today’s diesel truck engines, in many polluted areas, actually put cleaner air out the exhaust than they take in. New 2010 engines have improved fuel economy, and some believe we could see 10-mpg trucks in 10 years.