ATA Joins Call to Fund Long-Term Highway Bill

ARLINGTON, Va., April 15, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, American Trucking Associations President and CEO Bill Graves urged the Obama administration and Congress to quickly come together on a long-term, well-funded highway bill.

"We're only a month and a half from the expiration of the current highway bill," Graves said, "so we implore leaders on Capitol Hill, at the Department of Transportation and in the White House to step up and deliver a plan – and funding – for the transportation system our country needs and deserves.

"One of the things that makes this country great is our mobility – the freedom to travel this country without restriction," he said. "However, we are threatening our ability to smoothly and safely move goods and people through our collective inaction.

"We again call on our leaders in Washington to find the appropriate funding to pay for the improved and expanded roads and bridges we need to continue moving America forward into the 21st century as the economic leaders we believe ourselves to be," Graves said.

American Trucking Associations is the largest national trade association for the trucking industry. Through a federation of 50 affiliated state trucking associations and industry-related conferences and councils, ATA is the voice of the industry America depends on most to move our nation's freight. Follow ATA on Twitter or on Facebook. Trucking Moves America Forward 

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