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    Congestion costs rising for US trucking industry

    2017-05-17T11:51:27Z

    The US trucking industry faced an extra $63.4 billion in operational costs in 2015 due to traffic congestion on the national highway system, new research out this week has suggested.The latest report by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) used a variety of data sources, including its GPS database, to ...

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    UK government investing £250m in M20 truck park

    2016-07-11T14:48:28Z

    Potential truck park sites – click to enlargeThe UK government’s Department for Transport (DfT) has given the go-ahead for a truck park to be built near Stanford in Kent, on the M20 motorway, that will be capable of holding 3,600 trucks.The park will be used to ease congestion and ...