—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 15, 1976 , AT A chairman warns trucking deregulation threatens U.S. agricultural distribution CHICAGO - The chairman of American Trucking Associations (ATA) on Wednesday warned that proposals to deregulate the motor carrier industry threaten the continuing combined efforts of agriculture and trucking to serve growing consumer demands for food and fiber. of Transcon Lanes, El Segundo, Calif., told a national agricultural transportation conference here that maintaining such a successful performance m the future “will certainly not be automatic” as farmers and ranchers, like trucking companies, face many ob stacles. certain farm organizations support “to some extent” attempts to deregulate trucking. However, he said their essential needs for transportation service would be the first to suffer should unbridled truck competition force cost-cutting at every level and abandonment of all but the most profitable business at the expense of rural communities. “This is no threat - but rather a hard economic fact of life without proper regulation by government. To be sure, there is no lack of competition in the motor carrier industry because of regulation,” he explained. Sollenbarger countered arguments for deregulation stating that regulation of motor trucks by the In terstate Commerce Com mission is anti-competitive, by citing the fact that 82 per cent of applications for operating authority have been approved. Moreover, he noted that 12,000 out of 16,000 regulated carriers have gross annual revenues of under $500,000. In turning to the concern of many farm interests with the agricultural exemption originally intended to cover Lee R. Sollenbarger, who is also chairman of the board The motor carrier executive acknowledged that Butz invites Bulgarians SOPHIA, Bulgaria - A team of Bulgarian agricultural experts will visit the United States later this year to discuss future agricultural cooperation between the two countries, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz and Bulgarian Minister of Agriculture and Food In dustry Gancho Krustev announced here late last month. In a joint statement climaxing Secretary Butz’ two-day visit to Bulgaria, the officials said “the future promotion of relations in the field of agriculture, along with the development of relations in other fields, is of mutual interest and con tributes to the improvement of the relations between the People’s Republic of Bulgaria and the United States of America, for the strengthening of peace and cooperation in the world, and the further easing of tension in international relations.” Secretary Butz invited Minister Krustev to visit the United States and the minister accepted. The date of the visit will be announced later. Butz was on a 20-day, 10- country tour of Asia and Europe to discuss agriculture and trade issues with officials in each country. He has been in New Zealand, Australia, In donesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Greece and Bulgaria, and also visited Switzerland, Spain and Portugal before returning to the U.S. May 2. In Bulgaria, Butz met with the Chairman of the State Council, Todor Zhivkov; Mr. Krustev; Minister of Foreign Trade Ivan Nedev, the Bulgarian Ambassador to the U.S., Lyubomir Popov, and officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He also toured the agro-industrial complex at Pervenets. National grape output at record-high level HARRISBURG - Penn sylvania’s utilized grape production for 1975 totaled 48.000 tons, nine per cent less than the 1974 production, according to the Penn sylvania Crop Reporting Service. Approximately 46.000 tons, about 90 per cent, were delivered to wineries and processing plants. Of this tonnage, 80 per cent was processed in Pennsylvania. utilized grape crop is estimated at a record 4.3 million tons, four per cent above the 1974 crop. California, which produces 90 per cent of the United States total, showed an in crease of four per cent in production and the largest crop since 1965. 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Suggestions to allow exempt truckers to haul regulated commodities on backhaul would amount to “emptying one truck to fill another.” This is no answer to the problem and the trucking industry is opposed to the idea, he emphasized. “Empty backhaul is a concern of yours. Rest assured that is of equal concern to us. No trucker wants to move empty. But some empty backhaul is an unavoidable fact of tran sportation life,” he declared. raw, unprocessed products, he cited its present ap plication to a broader number of commodities whose transportation characteristics are the same as those for regulated freight. * “It is frankly ironic to me, that many of those in dividuals and organizations who hold on so tightly to this exemption, are the same ones who have problems with their transportation. Not enough equipment at the right time, inferior equip ment, undependable service and highly fluctuating rates,” he said. 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