As transportation leaders gather in Texas this week at the American Trucking Associations Management Conference & Exhibition Annual Convention in Grapevine, Texas ATA's president and CEO said in this opening comments to the group that the trucking industry's future remains bright despite the federal debt, unemployment rate and the increasing number of regulations facing the trucking industry.
Graves - "I really believe we are blessed with a country, with a people and with an economy that is capable of surviving anything our government can throw at it."
It is expected that trucking's percentage of the freight tonnage transported will increase over other modes of transportation such as rail, etc. in the coming years even as the total freight tonnage increasings following the US population growth from 200 million to 300 million.
