| 2009 highway accident involved a tractor-trailer that plowed into stopped traffic on I-44, killing 10 people.

| Show floor exhibitor space was up nearly 20 percent over 2009 with almost 450 companies in attendance.

| Fatalities of large truck occupants dropped from 682 in 2008 to 503 in 2009, a 26 percent decline.

| Over the next six years, the plan would include rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads and constructing and maintaining 4,000 miles of rail. ...