The trailer trucking industry of North America is essentially a single entity in many ways since many trucking transport firms operate in both Canada and the United States in an efficient and reliable manner. This harmonization of business between Canada and the United States for trucking services firms is a feat that requires the support of both the Canadian and American governments though. Mexico is certainly part of this harmonization of North America’s trucking industry, but at present the trucking industry of Mexico needs to travel futher down the road to harmonization, before it will reach the level of cooperation that exists between Canada and the United States.
Earlier in 2010 the United States government announced that light trucks manufactured between the years 2012 and 2016 would have to get in line with new fuel efficiency regulations and would be expected to reach a 40 percent improvement in fuel efficiency. The United States government also announced last week that America would be moving the trucking transport industry of America down the road to getting the industry in line with national mileage and emissions standards in the near future. The United States Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency will begin working together on specific fuel efficiency benchmarks for medium and heavy-duty trucks manufactured between the years 2014 – 2018 in the future that could see much stricter and tougher standards implemented in the years agead.
At the time of this announcement Canada’s Environment Minister Jim Prentice had commented that Canada would be moving down the road towards harmonizing the national mileage and emissions standards of Canada’s passenger vehicles and the trucking industry with similar rules in place in the United States.
The Canadian Trucking Alliance has answered this announcement with comments that they would look forward to working with the Canadian government on developing feasible and usable fuel efficiency standards for Canada’s trucking industry. The alliance thinks that the government needs to ask for and use the input of the professionals that transport the freight on the highways of North America every day during the development process. Otherwise, there could be a few problems created for the trailer trucking industry of North America that will only cause additional problems in their business operations and costs down the road.
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