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For the Record Last year, Freight Shuttle Inter- national submitted the only re- sponse to the Texas DOT's request for proposals for a low-emission freight transportation facility on the I-35 right-of-way. In return for up to 50 years of lease payments, Freight Shuttle would finance, build and maintain a shuttle be- tween San Antonio and Dallas. Using steel wheels and electric power, FS transporters carry a standard-size freight container or an over-the-road trailer between two points 600 miles (or less) apart. Electrical single-unit trans- porters, elevated guide ways and a terminal are linked together by an intelligent command, control and communications network for point-to-point freight delivery. El Paso Mayor John Cook and U.S. Rep Silvestre Reyes, D-El Paso, promoted the shuttle to decrease truck traffic between El Paso and Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico in a March 26 meeting with Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. City councils in both cities have signed letter of intent and the Regional Economic Development Corporation is actively promoting the system. In Mexico, Nuevo Leon is creat- ing a master plan that includes specifications and recommended alignment of a 150-mile Freight Shuttle from Monterrey to the Texas border that ultimately will link to Dallas. The shuttle is one of the truck substitute technologies considered under the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach's Technology Advance- ment Program to as an electric powered systems to transport containers from the two ports to Southern California destination. The program evaluates strate- gies and provides funding for pilot demonstration programs. The ports' joint study to evaluate technologies to transport contain- ers from the ports to near-dock rail facilities included a freight shuttle system. We've Got Your Back. ® " Guaranteed Accurate Weights At CAT Scale, we stand behind our weights. Period. The next time you need to weigh, look for the black and gold sign and get weights you can trust. I weighed on a CAT Scale in Pennsylvania; got down to Texas and they wrote me a $455 ticket. I proved them wrong, but they wouldn't listen to me. We got ahold of CAT Scale and they took care of it – paid the whole $455. CAT Scale backed me up. I'll go back to CAT Scale; no doubt about it! – Rocky Kentucky " © 2012 CAT Scale Company Like us on Facebook. The CAT Scale Guarantee at www.catscaleguarantee.com. Read more about Circle 301 on Reader Service Card or visit truckersnews.hotims.com JUNE 2012 | TRUCKERS NEWS | 13 Jamboree, July 12-13 at Iowa 80 Truckstop, Walcott, IA Walcott Truckers See us at the TEXAS TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE