Frederick W. Smith: “When I first arrived to Congress I would go to the floor every day and my mantra for Congress would be jobs, jobs, jobs.”

I urge you and your colleagues to consider modernizing trucking regulations to include these trailers that have proven to be safe and efficient.

The easiest, quickest, most effective way to solve the problem, is to put in a fuel tax to fund improvements.

We are now at levels of Federal infrastructure spending that have not been seen since 1948 as a percentage of GDP.

I believe that after terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, our increased dependence on petroleum represents the biggest single threat to our nation's economy and national security.