Trucking News: ATD Headlines June 22, 2007

[WattsMack]

This Issue's Headlines:
•	May Truck Sales Fall 51 Percent
•	Class 8 Fleet Grows 4.8 Percent as Freight Levels Drop
•	ULSD Supply Problems Minimal, Officials Say
•	DaimlerChrysler, Fiat to Collaborate on Light Diesel Engines
•	Freightliner Workers Vote to Avoid Layoffs at N.C. Plant
•	NYC Cuts Traffic-Plan Fee for Trucks Meeting EPA Rule
•	U.S. Economy to Expand in Coming Months
•	ATD Dealer Academy Class Set for Fall 2007
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[ThaddeusW]

Thankfully Mayor Bloomberg's idiotic plan to charge vehicles going into Manhattan wont fly. Charging the trucks that bring the freight and supplies into the city more then the passenger cars is ludicrous. Let them take the damn subway or a taxi, we have a huge mass transit system, use it! Too many a** holes want to cruise around in their BMW's, Mercedes etc. Trains and taxis are beneath them. Another problem is allot of traffic is from long island to New Jersey from the midtown tunnel to the Lincoln tunnel and the Manhattan bridge to the Holland tunnel. We do allot of business in Manhattan and we are gonna have to pass that fee on to the customer which wont be a problem but damn another bill to pay. The thing that gets me is they are going to bill you by a camera system that will get this cost something like 275 million for the INITIAL implementation. Bloomberg is just trying to polish his political image at our cost he doesn't even get paid by the city, he gets a paycheck for $0. He is a billionaire who is playing politics and needs some job experience on his resume. Screw him.