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 PUBLIC LAW 99-232—DEC. 28, 1985

99 STAT. 1753

Public Law 99-232 99th Congress Joint Resolution To designate the week of January 26, 1986, to February 1, 1986, as "Truck and Bus Safety Week".

Whereas trucks and buses provide essential transportation services to all Americans; Whereas five million trucks travel more than one hundred and thirty-eight billion miles each year, bringing raw materials, finished goods, food, and other essential products to market; Whereas the trucking industry alone employs more than seven million four hundred thousand Americans and generates annual revenues in excess of $200,000,000,000; Whereas the bus industry employs approximately fifty thousand people and provides service to over ten thousand cities and communities; Whereas the safe maintenance and operation of trucks and buses is vital to the health and safety of motorists, pedestrians, and other users of the Nation's highways, roads, and streets; Whereas the safe maintenance and operation of trucks and buses is also vital to the companies and individuals directly involved in the provision of such transportation services; Whereas the safe maintenance and operation of trucks carrying hazardous materials is essential not only to the safety of the immediate highway environment, but often to the surrounding environment as well; Whereas State governments are increasing their efforts to improve safety compliance both on their own and with funding assistance provided by the Federal Government; Whereas there is a continuing need for congressional inducement to improve highway safety; and Whereas improvements in the safe operation of trucks and buses result from activities undertaken by management and labor, including activities to ensure driver professionalism: Now, therefore, be it

Dec. 28, 1985 [S.J. Res. 235]

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