Is there public policy to balance our need for speed with our right to safe roads? by Shannon Newton Confession: I like to drive fast. During the first week of the recent 92nd General Assembly, I was pulled over speeding…
Shannon Newton
Shannon Newton
Shannon Newton is president of the Arkansas Trucking Association, whose membership represents more than 90 percent of all annual revenue generated by the state’s trucking industry. She is also the executive editor for the award-winning magazine Arkansas Trucking Report and currently serves on the Governor’s Highway Funding Working Group.
But, it’s a big step forward for Arkansas and the nation. On Dec. 4, President Barack Obama signed into law the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, or “FAST Act.” After 36 short-term extensions, it has been a long, slow, contentious…
Whoosh. Moore’s law observes that technological advancement is exponential. And rapid. Whoosh, there it goes again. The world we were born into is very different from the one we’ll leave. Likewise, despite the fact that, due to funding issues, we’re…
A couple of weeks ago, my team and I left the office and met at the TA Petro travel center off Interstate 40 in North Little Rock. The station had set up tents in the parking lot, and volunteers were…
As American Trucking Associations President and CEO Bill Graves and others have discussed, a recent New York Times opinion column titled, “The Trucks are Killing Us,” was published without anyone properly vetting the statements contained in it. Despite the author’s implied…
Photos courtesy of Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department There’s no way to sugarcoat it. The current state of our nation’s infrastructure is grim. Our nation’s infrastructure has long been our economic backbone, but we’ve been investing in it less…