{"id":1722,"date":"2011-04-05T03:33:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T03:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2011-12-15T02:36:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T02:36:00","slug":"highway-funding-can%e2%80%99t-be-weakened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/highway-funding-can%e2%80%99t-be-weakened\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway funding can\u2019t be weakened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.findfreightloads.com\/\"> Commercial Vehicle<\/a> Safety Alliance last week warned Congress that funding commercial motor vehicle safety programs at lower-than-current levels would weaken state enforcement efforts, and that large truck-related injuries and deaths could tick upward.\u201cWe are finally heading in the right direction with a downward trend in <a href=\"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/traffic-deaths-plunge\/\">heavy truck fatalities<\/a>,\u201d says Capt. Steve Dowling, CVSA president. \u201cWith the economy picking up and highway traffic increasing, I don\u2019t believe we could continue that trend if the <a href=\"http:\/\/freightbrokerscourse.com\/services\/license-filing-service\/\">Motor Carrier Safety<\/a> Assistance Program and state safety grant funds are cut.\u201d Dowling was speaking before the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit during a two-day hearing on the re authorization of the nation\u2019s surface transportation programs.<\/p>\n<p>CVSA urged Congress to continue to focus funds on enhancing the MCSAP, as there is FMCSA data indicating that roadside inspections and traffic enforcement have a clear and substantial safety benefit, and are providing a tremendous return on the investment of tax dollars. \u201cThrough targeted investments, we can improve upon our successes and provide the necessary tools for enhancing enforcement\u2019s ability to remove the unsafe operators from the road,\u201d said Dowling. \u201cWe recommend making the safety grant programs more flexible and streamlining the administrative and delivery processes to reflect the <a href=\"http:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/technology-truckers-love-to-hate\/\">reality of today<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance last week warned Congress that funding commercial motor vehicle safety programs at lower-than-current levels would weaken state enforcement efforts, and that large truck-related injuries and deaths could tick upward.\u201cWe are finally heading in the right direction with a downward trend in heavy truck fatalities,\u201d says Capt. Steve Dowling, CVSA president. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[41,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3218,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions\/3218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findfreightloads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}