The business community will tell Senate funding leaders on March 8 to raise taxes on fuel as a way to fund big-ticket infrastructure projects. Sarah Kline of the Bipartisan Policy Center explains how P3s can work even in rural communities. Here's the week ahead for trucking on Capitol Hill.
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Results of FMCSA Restart Study Did Not Benefit Driver Safety, Fatigue, DOT Says
A congressionally mandated study on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s hours-of-service restart rule showed that it “did not explicitly identify a net benefit on driver operations, safety, fatigue and health,” the Department of Transportation Inspector General said March 2.
March 6, 2017US Will Reclaim Global Supply Chain, Trump Trade Aide Says
The United States is seeking more “reciprocal” trade with other countries in a bid to boost growth, reduce the trade deficit and keep American production capacity out of foreign hands, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said.
March 6, 2017Service Industries Grow at Fastest Pace Since October 2015
American service companies expanded in February at the fastest rate since October 2015 amid stronger orders, signaling momentum in the economy’s biggest sector.
March 3, 2017Editorial: Week Spent Looking to the Future
Conference halls from coast to coast were teeming with talk of transportation last week, with no shortage of prognostications from industry leaders about what the future holds.
March 6, 2017Opinion: Virginia Increases Availability of TWICs at DMVs
As reported in Transport Topics in early December 2016, (12-12, pp. 4, 43) American Trucking Associations President Chris Spear told a roundtable of lawmakers at a Senate hearing in Washington, D.C., that the Transportation Worker Identification Credential, or TWIC, represents the future of secure transportation.
March 6, 2017Governors Acknowledge Every Funding Option Necessary for Infrastructure
A toolkit of options for financing big-ticket infrastructure projects is required to compensate for lack of federal funding, governors noted in a policy outline for 2017.
March 3, 2017Trump Urges Congress to Pass $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill
WASHINGTON — Addressing Congress for the first time, President Trump was short on specifics when he called for passage of a $1 trillion infrastructure investment plan that he suggested would modernize the country’s transportation network.
March 6, 2017Federal Policy Needed for Autonomous Vehicles Says Utah DOT Director
WASHINGTON — A national regulatory framework for autonomous vehicles would ensure safety standards are the same across states, the chief of Utah’s Department of Transportation told senators on March 1.
March 2, 2017North American Cross-Border Freight Falls in 2016
Trucking hauled less U.S. freight to Canada and Mexico in 2016 than 2015, according to March 2 data from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
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