Second term: Obama’s impact on trucking

By Randy Mullett
vice president of government relations and public affairs, Con-way Inc.

   With the long-anticipated MAP-21 Surface Transportation bill signed into law, and the reauthorization of funding for the Federal Aviation Administration secured, 2012 saw multi-year negotiations, campaigns and debates around transportation finally come to a resolution. And with November’s elections behind us, a larger and broader intellectual exercise has begun: predicting the impact the second Obama administration term will have on the transportation sector.