ATA to Testify Before Senate Environment & Public Works Committee

**MEDIA ADVISORY**

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — American Trucking Associations (ATA) First Vice Chair Barbara Windsor will testify tomorrow during the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee hearing on climate change. Windsor, who is President and CEO of Hahn Transportation in New Market, Md., will represent ATA at the hearing on S. 1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, in 406 Dirksen Senate Office Building at 9:30 a.m.

Windsor will testify that ATA strongly supports efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make this country more energy independent. However, an economy-wide cap and trade system is not the answer. The current cap and trade proposal will increase the price and volatility of diesel fuel, which trucking companies depend upon, without reducing carbon emissions from the industry.

For the trucking industry, higher fuel prices does not translate into fewer miles traveled because the nation depends on trucks to deliver nearly 100 percent of the food, clothes, and medicines that we use in our daily lives. Instead, this increase in diesel prices will raise logistics costs within the economy and hurt the American consumer.

Windsor’s entire testimony will be available at:

http://www.truckline.com/Newsroom/Pages/Testimony.aspx

The ATA is the largest national trade association for the trucking industry. Through a federation of other trucking groups, industry-related conferences, and its 50 affiliated state trucking associations, ATA represents more than 37,000 members covering every type of motor carrier in the United States.

SOURCE American Trucking Associations