In June 1978, the Federal Highway Administration spent $222,000 — $934,000 in 2021 dollars – to study motorist’s attitudes toward large trucks, earning it a Golden Fleece Award from U.S. Sen. William Proxmire, a Democrat from Wisconsin.
Proxmire felt the survey was a waste of taxpayer funds because, in part, it was duplicative of other studies on trucks.
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