Craig Raucher has worked with a number of major transportation
companies as an executive with direct sales and operations experience. Over the
course of his 35-year career, Craig Raucher has monitored trends
and developments in the trucking and rail sectors.
In transportation industry news, the US House of
Representatives recently approved a new bill that focuses highway funding
on freight corridors and features transportation safety provisions. The House
bill outlines a national freight network comprised of certain highways and
commits $4.5 billion annually to capacity building for the network.
Due to lobbying by shipping and railroad entities, the bill
also gives rail operators more time to integrate mandated positive train
control (PTC) technology. If the bill is approved by the Senate, operators
would have until at least the end of 2018 to employ the advanced safety
technology that experts claim can prevent major accidents. The bill also
stipulates that safety ratings for truck and bus companies must be eliminated
from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s public website.
According to the transportation industry, the methodology for the rating system
is unsound.
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