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Tipping Point on

Fuel Tax to Come

Recent polls report opposition to fuel tax softening,
but national tipping point still elusive

By Todd Traub into the picture. Americans to get their points of view
Contributing Writer Those are some of the results found on the trucking industry, infrastruc-
in a survey presented by award-winning ture and potential methods of funding
People support the trucking indus- pollster Neil Newhouse at the American infrastructure improvements.
try as much as they ever have, and they Trucking Associations Advocacy and “This sample is right in line,”
support improving the roads and bridges Government Affairs Luncheon dur- Newhouse said. “Demographically,
the truckers use. However, just like ing the Management Conference and ethnically, education-wise, partisanship
trucks at an interchange, the opinions Exhibition in Orlando in October. and regionally, it’s on line with the cen-
go in different directions when dollars The ATA national poll, taken June sus population across the country and
and cents — and politics — are brought 25-28, surveyed a sampling of 800 it’s on line with national surveys.”

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