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28 PalletCentral • May-June 2017 palletcentral.com TRANSPORTATION the road for these advanced vehicles may continue to move goods safely and efficiently from coast to coast and border to border. Trips to the border are important to trucking, and it is the reason our industry is synonymous with trade. Currently, 76% of our nation's NAFTA trade with Mexico and Canada crosses the border in a truck – supporting thousands of jobs in the U.S. We want to help the Administration and Congress build a trade framework that helps grow our economy, including the trucking industry. Since 1995, the value of goods traveling between the U.S. and Canada has risen dramatically – nearly 168% to $712 billion, supporting thousands of jobs in the trucking industry. For U.S. trade with Mexico, trucks move 83% of the trade between the two countries, in all making 5.5 million crossings in 2015. We will work to support trade policies that help grow good paying American jobs and the trucking industry. "No one knows America like truckers know America," President Donald Trump said to ATA leaders and to 12 professional drivers who met with him at the White House in March. I'm proud to say that we do know America, and we are eager to work toward improving our industry and our economy so that we continue to deliver the essential goods our country needs to move forward. PC Chris Spear is President and CEO of the American Trucking Associations. The ATA is committed to developing and advocating innovative, research-based policies that promote highway safety, security, environ- mental sustainability and profitability. Learn more about the ATA at Trucking.org. iStockphoto.com/Proxima13