Fuel taxes
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Optimizing Fleet Compliance
Intrastate vs. interstate: The subtle differences that matter for motor carriers
Carriers continue to face fines and out-of-service violations because they don’t understand the difference between intrastate and interstate operating authority.
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Infrastructure
Senate examines vehicle miles traveled tax
At a recent hearing, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee heard loud and clear that the trucking industry should not serve as the guinea…
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Trucking Regulation
ATRI puts $20B price tag on vehicle-miles-traveled tax
An American Transportation Research Institute study finds the cost to deploy and collect a vehicle-miles-traveled tax would be 300 times more than the current fuel…
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Infrastructure
Infrastructure funding merry-go-round
TCA advocates for an increase to the federal fuel tax to make up for funding shortfalls, but also recognizes that a vehicle miles tax is…
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Trucking
Research group shifts focus to non-nuclear truck crash verdicts
A year after studying nuclear verdicts in truck crashes, the American Transportation Research Institute is focusing on smaller verdicts as its top research priority while…
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Infrastructure
House Democrats unveil $760 billion infrastructure strategy
Funding likely to remain elusive for proposal that focuses on zero-carbon initiatives.
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Insights
Commentary: When transport markets fail
Darren Prokop writes about the need for a solution to repair and improve the nation's highways and bridges. What are the options and is there…
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Trucking
Today’s Pickup: Old Dominion pledges disaster relief support to Red Cross; teen inventors
Old Dominion has made a commitment to donate up to $250,000 to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief fund.
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News
Today’s pickup: Fuel tax fades into sunset; Walmart stores as competitive weapon
A credits markets reporter writes about the waning value of the motor fuels tax screen. A logistics company starts-up in Myanmar. And the supposedly available…
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News
Democrats – Trump all-in on $2 trillion for infrastructure
No signs yet on agreement on how to pay for it.
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