Frederick W. Smith: “President Eisenhower in the 1950s, launching the Interstate Highway System was one of the most important things that led…”

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

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

We ought to produce them and use some of the revenues to develop new alternatives and fund infrastructure.

The combination of the leadership of the Congress in deregulating transportation and the funding mechanism that was put in place to build our transportation infrastructure was very important to the economic prosperity of this country.