ATA Seeking Trucker Comments on Record-High Diesel Prices

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merican Trucking Associations said it has launched a new Internet initiative on its Web site for truckers to share information about the effect of high fuel prices on their businesses.

The new feature is part of ATA’s National Fuel Price Crisis Watch, said spokesman Mike Russell. Comments can be e-mailed to fuelcrisis@trucking.org, and responses would later be posted on ATA’s Web site, www.truckline.com.

ATA has also set up a feature on its Web site, www.truckline.com/fuelpricecrisis, as part of its National Fuel Price Crisis Watch, an initiative designed to educate public officials on how fuel prices are hurting the trucking industry, and ultimately, the national economy.

Russell said ATA President Bill Graves decided earlier this year that “we needed a central place to gather real-time and anecdotal information about the effect that record fuel prices” are having on the trucking industry.

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