Fixing the Highway Trust Fund is a priority for the trucking industry – but not by charging trucks based on routes and weights, say owner-operators.
A Harris-Walz win in November could bring national attention to a highway funding scheme taking root among states.
With concerns over freight markets heating up, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is staking out its priorities.
Federal watchdogs tell the Biden administration that more research is needed to ramp up a national user fee system to eventually replace the gas tax as the main way to fund highway construction.
Richard Trumka insisted that the economy depends on getting an infrastructure bill passed.
The president won’t consider raising fuel taxes to pay for highway and road spending, effectively killing the 65-year-old program, Mullett claims.
The Highway Trust Fund (HTF) is a central piece of a multiyear surface transportation reauthorization bill that Congress is negotiating to replace the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act.
Congress is considering several options to keep the Highway Trust Fund afloat.
Experts warned lawmakers of industry backlash if trucking is singled out to save the nearly bankrupt highway trust fund
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 tax.
Congressman Sam Graves proposes using the Postal Service to test a new bridge and highway funding effort.
Control of the Senate will be critical for the 2021 reauthorization process.
$13.6 billion included in package to keep Highway Trust Fund running.
Credit agency raises flag on long-term funding issues.
$305 billion, five-year FAST Act is set to expire Sept. 30.
Pennsylvania Turnpike cites surge in e-commerce as a factor.
Trump and Republicans at odds over using pandemic as bridge to transportation funding.
Raising tax by 15 cents a gallon is needed before transitioning to mileage-based fee, according to lobbying group.
Funding likely to remain elusive for proposal that focuses on zero-carbon initiatives.
Buttigieg proposal part of candidate’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan.
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 the political will to develop a solution?
Texas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania had most to lose if funding had been slashed.
The American Trucking Associations urges a federal fuel tax increase to pay for infrastructure improvements, but ATA President Chris Spear sees that approach evolving in the next decade.
Option raised as part of Capitol Hill debate on congestion pricing
Freight tonnage will grow 25.6 percent by the end of the next decade, the American Trucking Associations (ATA) predicts in its annual ATA Freight Transportation Forecast: 2019 to 2030.
Legislation includes first-ever grants for electric vehicle infrastructure.
Federal transport spending bill by Election Day? Forget it, former DOT secretary says
State-by-state benefits of raising gas tax included in White House letter.
$2 trillion infrastructure plan would boost Highway Trust Fund to $850 billion
2020 U.S. presidential election could become major roadblock
ATA points out that the proposal, to be officially unveiled on Capitol Hill this week, makes several wrong assumptions.
ARTBA estimates cost to repair or replace 235,000 bridges across the country at $171 billion.
Lawmakers heard how costly fees and equipment shortages along the supply chain are hurting exports.
Lots of ideas for federal funding of infrastructure at Capitol Hill hearing, but the “pay-for” question still looms.
The Congressional Budget Office revealed the latest deficits it tracks for the Highway Trust Fund as Congress plans to debate new ways to pay for infrastructure.
The Congressional Budget Office reveals latest stats on the diminishing Highway Trust Fund as Congress plans to consider new ways to pay for highway infrastructure.
The biggest hurdle to making an infrastructure plan work is figuring out how to pay for it. A Washington D.C. think tank says Congress is ready to consider mileage-based user fees.
Freight lobbyists are banking on leadership changes in the 116th Congress to pave the way for infrastructure financing that stalled during the first half of Trump’s administration.
