Tolls
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News
As toll roads go cashless, fleets and drivers face new costs
While many trucking companies already have a transponder-based approach to toll management, operators that use cash need to reevaluate their approach to tolls, experts said.
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Less than Truckload
Today’s Pickup: UPS sues pot delivery company; War on Detention announced
UPS has sued a pot delivery company in California saying the company is infringing on hits trademarks; also FreightWaves announces a War on Detention, Connecticut…
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Canada
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Container
Today’s Pickup: Top supply chain trends and Rhode Island toll revenue grows
Top supply chain trends and Rhode Island collects more in toll revenue than it expected, plus the growing scooter logistics sector and more container checks.
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Oregon toll proposal pits trucks against transit
The plan has reignited a debate about highway versus transit investment in Portland, a city that 45 years ago famously redirected money intended for a…
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Driver issues
Virginia’s governor, with bipartisan backing, supports tolls for Interstate 81
What Northam supports is along the same lines as the recommendation of a recently-appointed commission on the heavily-traveled north/south highway.
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Driver issues
Connecticut Governor-Elect on tolls: “We are going to focus just on those big tractor-trailer trucks”
A Connecticut DOT study found that tolls on the state highways could generate $1 billion a year. Despite that, the incoming governor is focused only…
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Economics
State trucking association pushes back against need for tolls in Connecticut
Tolls once graced Connecticut highways until the mid 1980s, but the state is now looking at bringing them back to increase revenue. The state trucking…
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Driver issues
ATA, 3 carriers file suit over Rhode Island’s truck-only tolls
The American Trucking Associations and three Northeast-based motor carriers have sued Rhode Island over the implementation of truck-only tolls, claiming they are discriminatory and violate…
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Tolling for trucks in Rhode Island to begin June 11
On Monday, June 11th, 2018, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) will officially begin tolling “tractor-trailers to pass two locations on Interstate 95,” as…
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