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Rail
Rail Roundup: Train crews, shippers’ views, shareholders choose
SMART-TD must negotiate with Class I railroads on train crew size; Rail Customer Coalition calls on STB to take up reciprocal switching; ASLRRA praises progress…
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Infrastructure
Biden spotlights computer chip shortage on visit to Mack Trucks plant
A Mack Trucks facility was the backdrop Wednesday for President Biden to highlight his plan to require that 75% of the value of a product’s…
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News
Report: Trucking jobs account for 20% of Biden’s infrastructure plan
Truck driving is the biggest single occupation that stands to benefit from the president’s infrastructure plan, according to a new report.
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Medically Necessary
Medically Necessary: Infrastructure plan directs billions to health care
President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan is light on details, but it could affect the health care supply chain.
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Infrastructure
Biden unveils sweeping $2 trillion infrastructure plan
Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan relies heavily on rolling back Trump’s corporate tax cuts.
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Infrastructure
Lawmaker: Use Postal Service to test vehicle-miles-traveled fee
Congressman Sam Graves proposes using the Postal Service to test a new bridge and highway funding effort.
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Last-mile delivery
Biden’s plan to energize last-mile road safety
President Biden has pledged to pump funding into state and local agencies in a bid to make last-mile freight delivery smarter and safer.
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Infrastructure
Can Joe Biden get infrastructure done in 2021?
A Democratic “trifecta” in Washington could finally push a long-term infrastructure past the finish line.
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Infrastructure
Biden nominates Pete Buttigieg as DOT secretary
President-elect Joe Biden has nominated former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg, who dropped out of 2020 presidential campaign earlier this year and endorsed Biden,…
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News
5 questions with Daimler Trucks North America’s Samantha Parlier
A car-crazed high schooler, Samatha Parlier learned long before becoming vice president of vocational market development for Daimler Trucks North America that even though both…
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