Highways face crushing weight of a million more trucks by 2016
Think the highways are getting crowded with 18-wheelers? Just you wait.
One million more of the big rigs are expected to ply the nation's highways by 2016, up from 2.7 million operating today, according to American Trucking Associations.
"It's a big concern of the industry as a whole," said BJ Gorman, president of Tango Transport Inc., headquartered in Shreveport.