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Capitol Hill Report be addressed by indexing the rate," he said. "Substituting an untested, highly inefficient revenue collection mechanisms for an efficient revenue mechanism that is already in place would be illogical and irresponsible." Finally, Leathers called on Congress to address truck productivity by lifting "the most restrictive truck weight regulations of any developed country." With projected increases in freight traffic, more productive trucks will be essential to meet the nation's transportation needs. safety performance. The survey also seeks to capture attitudes toward the program and general understanding of its key components. Drivers are encouraged to provide confidential input on CSA through ATRI's survey, available online at www. atri-online.org. The aggregated and anonymized results of the survey will be available later this year. NATSO, Other Marketer Groups Protest Pipeline Decision to Halt ULSD Shipments CHANGING LANES Commercial Drivers Asked To Weight In On CSA The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) today launched its third annual commercial driver survey to identify CSA impacts on trucking operations, as well as driver perceptions and attitudes toward FMCSA's maturing regulatory program. This survey, which specifically seeks commercial driver input, will be compared and contrasted with data collected in 2011 and 2012 – where ATRI received responses from a representative sample of nearly 6,000 drivers (report available online at www. atri-online.org). The brief on-line survey asks drivers for information on how their perceptions of CSA have changed or been affected as CSA continues its third full year of measuring commercial driver and motor carrier 8 capitol hill report 0613 cl.indd 2 NATSO and other associations representing petroleum marketers and retailers filed a protest with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) over Enterprise TEPPCO's recent decision to halt interstate ULSD on its pipeline effective July 1, 2013. NATSO, representing truckstops and travel plazas, along with the Petroleum Marketers Association of America (PMAA), the Arkansas Oil Marketers Association, Louisiana Oil Marketers and Convenience Store Association and Missouri Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association joined several companies to file the protest on Monday, April 22, including CHS Inc.; HWRT Oil Co. LLC; GROWMARK LLC.; MFA Oil Co.; Southwest Airlines and United Airlines. The pipeline originates in Baytown, Texas, and runs through Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, june 2013 // WWW.CHANGINGLANESDIGITAL.COM 5/7/13 10:37 AM