(Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.) New York state lawmakers are bucking at a plan backed by both Gov. Eliot Spitzer and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for new 鈥渃ongestion fees鈥 on cars and trucks that operate in the heart of the city during peak business hours, news reports said Friday.
June 22, 2007GovernmentBusinessSafety
Ala. Court Overturns Truck Tax Assessed for In-State Use
An Alabama appeals court ruled Friday that a trucking company with headquarters in the state should not have been required to pay more than $900,000 in state use tax for trucks that were originally delivered to a terminal in Ohio, a state appeals court ruled Friday, the Associated Press reported.
June 25, 2007GovernmentBusinessSafetyFuelEquipment
OEMs Promote Disc Brakes as 2007 Option
Class 8 truck makers said they are offering electronically controlled air disc brakes as an option in 2007 models, promoting them as safer and easier to maintain than the drum brakes most U.S. heavy trucks use.
June 25, 2007BusinessSafety
Large Truckload Turnover Rate Rises
Driver turnover at large truckload carriers climbed to its highest point in more than a year, rising six percentage points to an annualized rate of 127% in the first quarter, American Trucking Associations said.
June 25, 2007GovernmentBusinessSafetyFuel
Senate Passes Energy Bill
The Senate passed a comprehensive energy bill late Thursday that raises average auto fuel efficiency standards, but the measure did not include a tax on oil companies that would have boosted alternative fuel development, Agence France-Press reported.
June 22, 2007GovernmentBusinessSafetyLogistics
CTA Cites Border Concerns
The Canadian Trucking Alliance said it sees some positives in the U.S. cross-border passport rules, but still has concerns about the implications for cross-border truck traffic between the United States and Canada.
June 22, 2007BusinessSafety
Rail, Intermodal Levels Fall
Rail carload and intermodal freight fell for the week ended Saturday compared with a year ago, the Association of American Railroads said.
June 21, 2007GovernmentBusinessSafety
Passport Rule Pushed Back to 2008
The Bush administration will delay a rule that Americans must present passports when crossing the U.S. border by land or sea, the Associated Press reported.
June 21, 2007BusinessSafetyGovernment
Coalition Criticizes FMCSA Over Mexican Trucks Plan
A coalition of groups led by Public Citizen and the Teamsters union said Wednesday that the Department of Transportation was ignoring federal safety laws in implementing a pilot program that would allow Mexican trucks to travel throughout the United States.
June 20, 2007