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DARLINGTON RACEWAY READY TO TOAST 

SEVEN DECADES OF NASCAR RACING 

With Darlington Raceway 

ready to toast seven decades 

of NASCAR racing in this 

weekend’s throwback festivities, 

the current exhibit on display at 

the NASCAR Hall of Fame is especially 

timely. 

The NASCAR Hall’s “1948: Proving 

Grounds” exhibit shines a deserving 

spotlight on the first season for the 

fledgling sanctioning body, a 52-race 

grind for the Modified Division. The 

season set the foundation for the Daytona 

Beach organization and the establishment 

of the Strictly Stock Division 

(now the Monster Energy Series) 

the following year. 

“It’s almost seen as a prelude season 

or a preamble rather than the first 

season,” says Kevin Schlesier, the 

Hall’s exhibits manager. “So we really 

wanted to plant the flag in the ground 

historically and academically and say 

that it is the first NASCAR season and 

everything that (founder) Bill France 

and his cohorts were doing sets the 

tone. … 

“The ’48 season was an interesting 

hodgepodge of them figuring it out, 

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but them also setting the formula for 

still what works today.” 

Flashing back 70 years to those 

formative years wasn’t an easy task 

for Schlesier and his team. Cars and 

other artifacts from the time period are 

scarce, and record-keeping was unreliable 

back in stock-car racing’s infancy. 

“You really have to dig deep into 

the archives,” Schlesier says, noting 

how his team mined old newspapers 

and International Speedway Corporation’s 

reserves to tell the story of NAS- 

CAR’s post-war burst onto a motorsports 

scene dominated by sprint cars 

and Indianapolis-style racers. 

“It started out as sort of a celebration 

of the great sport that NASCAR 

becomes, but then you realize that in 

the first year, it’s anything but a done 

deal,” Schlesier says, noting that the 

racing periodicals of the day often 

mocked stock-car racing as a regional 

upstart. “We thought, let’s zero in on 

that and really do good history, which 

is 1948 isn’t the first year of a great 

sport, 1948 is the year where the sport 

could’ve been great or died instantly, 

and then what are the different, crosscutting 

factors that looked at that.” 

For history buffs, “Proving Grounds” 

brings that rough-and-tumble period 

to life, showing NASCAR’s goal of becoming 

an organizing source of stability 

in an era of fly-by-night promoters. 

It also shows the growth of primitive 

technology with the dominant car of 

the day — the 1939 Ford — and the 

hardscrabble tracks that formed the 

schedule that Bill France Sr. assembled 

as the series went. 

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But the newspaper articles — supported 

by race reports, canceled purse 

checks and other well-preserved documents 

— also tell the story of a dynamic, 

back-and-forth championship 

battle. Red Byron and Fonty Flock 

traded the standings lead several 

times with Byron eventually securing 

the title. Both became early stars in 

Strictly Stock competition, with Hall 

of Famer Byron becoming the premier 

series’ first champion. 

Though relics from 1948 were not 

easy to come by, several pieces of automotive 

history help to anchor the exhibit. 

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway 

Museum and Hall of Famer Ray 

Evernham were among the contributors, 

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FHWA’S FIRST 

FREIGHT, HIGHWAY 

CONDITIONS INDEX 

GIVES HIGH MARKS TO 

TRUCKING, TRUCKERS 

Freight transportation is vital to the U.S. 

economy and the daily needs of Americans 

throughout the country, and trucking plays 

a dominant role in moving that freight. To no 

one’s surprise, that’s according to the Federal 

Highway Administration’s first “Highway 

Freight Conditions and Performance Report” 

to Congress, which was mandated by the Fixing 

America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) 

Act of 2015. 

The report was released July 6. 

“Households and businesses depend on the 

efficient and reliable delivery of freight to both 

urban and rural areas,” the report said. 

Federal support for freight increased under 

the FAST Act, which included provisions to define, 

establish, and provide funding for a national 

highway freight program. 

The FAST Act freight provisions were designed 

to address significant needs in the 

transportation system to ensure that projected 

increases in freight volumes can be handled efficiently 

across all transportation modes. 

In 2015, the transportation system handled 

a record amount of freight — including a daily 

average of approximately 55 million tons of 

freight, worth approximately $49.5 billion. 

The freight transportation industry employed 

4.6 million workers and contributed 9.5 

percent of the nation’s economic activity as 

measured by gross domestic product (GDP). 

Although freight moves on all modes of 

transportation, the report said trucks are involved 

in the movement of most goods. 

The report said that 59.9 percent of the total 

tonnage of freight was moved by truck and 

60.7 percent of freight moved in terms of billions 

of dollars was moved by trucks. 

The highway system is the most-used mode 

of transport for freight by tonnage and value of 

goods moved. 

Commodities moved by truck have a higher 

value per weight, which gives trucking a higher 

share of freight dollar value. 

Trucking accounted for nearly 30.5 percent 

of total transportation and warehousing sector 

employment. 

Truck driving is by far the largest freight 

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transportation occupation, with approximately 

2.83 million truck drivers. About 57.5 percent of 

these professional truck drivers operate heavy 

trucks and 28.2 percent drive light trucks. 

The FAST Act also required the FHWA to report 

on the condition of the National Highway 

Freight Network (NHFN). 

In 2012, the NHFN consisted of 51,029 centerline 

miles, including 46,947 centerline miles 

of interstate and 4,082 centerline miles of noninterstate 

roads. 

Based on 2014 international roughness index 

(IRI) data from the Highway Performance 

Monitoring System (HPMS), approximately 77 

percent of pavement miles were rated as having 

good ride quality, 19 percent had fair ride 

quality, and 4 percent had poor ride quality. 

Professional truck drivers might take exception 

to the agency’s claim that 77 percent of 

pavement miles are in good condition. 

The National Bridge Inventory (NBI), which 

is used to identify current bridge ratings for 

bridges shows there are approximately 57,600 

bridges on the NHFN. Around 4.3 percent of 

those were rated as structurally deficient. Most 

of these structurally deficient bridges are 25 

years and older and over half are more than 50 

years old. These findings have implications for 

future maintenance and funding needs as well 

as impacts to operations. 

The FHWA said travel time, speed and safety 

are three measures of performance. 

Slower speeds and unreliable travel times 

caused by congestion increase fuel costs and 

affect operations and productivity, which adds 

expense to the freight transportation system, 

the report said, noting that in 2014, congestion 

created stop-and-go conditions on 5,800 miles 

of the NHFN and caused traffic to travel below 

posted speed limits on an additional 4,500 

miles of the high-volume truck portions of the 

NHFN. 

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The projected growth in freight and its reliance 

on trucks will increase congestion and 

make it more difficult and costly to move 

freight, the study said. 

As for the forecast, the report said in 1990, 

36.4 percent of the freight moved on the NHFN 

will be by truck. 

That percentage had jumped to 46.5 percent 

in 2015 and is forecast to reach 54.4 percent by 

2040 for an annual growth rate between 2015 

and 2040 of 1.6 percent per year. 

As for the distance freight travels, the report 

said approximately 50 percent of large freight 

trucks (trucks with a gross vehicle weight of 

over 10,000 pounds) operate within 50 miles 

of their origination and account for about 30 

percent of truck vehicle miles traveled (VMT). 

By contrast, only 10 percent of large trucks 

operate more than 200 miles away from their 

origin, but these large trucks account for more 

than 30 percent of overall truck VMT. 

Long-distance truck travel also accounts for 

nearly all freight ton-miles and a large share of 

truck VMT. 

As for truck parking, the report noted that 

truck drivers need safe, secure, and accessible 

truck parking. 

With the projected growth in truck traffic, 

demand for truck parking will continue to outpace 

supply. 

In 2014, FHWA worked with states and industry 

partners on the Jason’s Law Truck Parking 

Survey Results and Comparative Analysis 

to assess the needs. The resulting information 

quantified the commercial motor vehicle parking 

shortage at facilities along the National 

Highway System. 

The survey provided direct insight into parking 

issues: more than 75 percent of truck drivers 

surveyed said they regularly experienced 

problems finding “safe parking locations when 

rest was needed.” 

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TECH 

INTEGRATING DATA 

TECHNOLOGY BRINGING CHANGES ACROSS ALL 

SECTORS, INCLUDING STATE DOTS, SPEAKER SAYS 

Technology is rapidly changing 

all aspects of public and private 

sector operations, according to 

Matthew Garrett, director of the 

Oregon Department of Transportation. 

And the pace of change is only going 

to accelerate in the near future, so state 

DOTs need to ready themselves for both 

the “challenges and opportunities” that 

level of change will present them and their 

constituents. 

Speaking at the American Association of 

State Highway and Transportation Officials 

(AASHTO) 2018 Joint Policy Committee 

meeting here on July 17, Garrett said that 

“this is the most interesting and creative 

time in the human world, a time of rapid 

accelerating change, and we need look no 

farther than technology” to see its impact, 

according to a report in the AASHTO 

Journal. 

“Technology threatens to remake every 

aspect of every company and industry that 

we deal with,” he stressed. “So you must 

ask yourself these questions — what do 

you foresee the most significant challenge 

to retraining workers for the new jobs of 

this brave new world? Is the private sector 

focused on that challenge? Is our educational 

system, which is built around fouryear 

degrees, up to the challenge in a world 

that needs continuous training?” 

Garrett said that this movement forward 

“can be exciting and refreshing” and lead 

to new ways of doing business. “But it also 

demands that we must adapt and support 

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INTEGRATING DATA 

a culture that’s reimagining our work structure 

and learning platforms, that’s moving 

to continual education training and retraining 

across all portfolios within a state DOT.” 

Garrett serves as the chair for AASHTO’s 

committee on environment and sustainability 

and noted that a survey being conducted 

of his committee’s members is still 

open at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ 

aashtofastact. 

The survey seeks to gather details on 

“roadblocks, slowdowns, or other frustrations” 

in state DOT environmental work that 

the committee can address as reauthorization 

of the federal transportation bill 

— last reauthorized in 2015 as the Fixing 

America’s Surface Transportation or FAST 

Act — begins in earnest. 

Tim Hill, environmental services administrator 

for the Ohio Department of Transportation 

and vice chair of the committee, 

added that “there is a huge amount of 

change going on across the board” in the 

environmental sector. 

“It’s a very exciting time to be in environmental 

and change is coming from every 

angle,” Hill said. “Our view is, if one state’s 

having an issue, most likely other states are 

as well. So now we need to decide, is this 

the right time to push forward a change? 

Do we have the right examples and support 

in Congress to make a push for a change?” 

While he stressed that “this is a long 

process to go through to make change 

across the board where environmental issues 

are concerned,” Hill pointed out that 

“streamlining is the goal because we’re still 

having continued growth in environmental 

documentation requirements. We want to 

‘get back to the basics’ for more readerfriendly 

formats.” 

Oregon DOT’s Garrett said in his remarks 

that the use of more sophisticated technological 

tools “potentially offers an opportunity 

to refine, but not dismantle,” environmental 

regulatory safeguards. 

“We seek efficiency and improve outcomes 

at lowest possible burden — that 

is our charge,” he said. “The ‘simple push’ 

is that we support the environment and 

also support streamlined regulation processes 

and that a focus on balancing the 

environment with the needs to streamline 

the regulatory process are not mutually 

exclusive.” 

Garrett also emphasized that in facing 

this “brave new world of change” it is time 

for state DOTs to “lace up, lean in, and 

know you are advancing the practice of 

transportation for this nation.” 

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