Phil Byrd, president of Bulldog Hiway Express, Charleston, S.C., and the vice chairman of American Trucking Associations, told a congressional subcommittee that TSA efforts to secure the nation’s transportation system should be risk-based, according to an ATA press release.
“ATA has followed with some interest TSA's efforts to establish higher visibility operations in surface transportation,” Byrd said of the Transportation Security Administration’s Visible Intermodal Preparedness and Response program, which recently conducted security exercises in Georgia and Tennessee, according to the press release. “ATA supports such operations as long as they are based on intelligence or specific risks that require increased vigilance and security on our highways.”