ITA's Parkhurst packs it in
When Michael Parkhurst, president of the 30,000-member Independent Truckers Association (ITA), announced a truckers strike two weeks ago, his goals were ambitious: repeal of new federal taxes on diesel fuel and highway use, a curb on state trucking taxes and regulations, and a "meaningful discussion" of the 55-m.p.h. speed limit. What he got eleven days later was a page-long "Expression of Concern" signed by some 35 Congressmen that promised little more than a review of the federal tax hikes called for in the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of...
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