Vehicle miles tax
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AskWaves
How does the Highway Trust Fund work?
Congress is considering several options to keep the Highway Trust Fund afloat.
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Trucking Regulation
Road-user fee advocates warn Congress: Give truckers priority
Experts warned lawmakers of industry backlash if trucking is singled out to save the nearly bankrupt highway trust fund
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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
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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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
Bipartisan report argues for ‘one last increase’ in diesel tax
Raising tax by 15 cents a gallon is needed before transitioning to mileage-based fee, according to lobbying group.
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Infrastructure
‘Mayor Pete’ pledges $165 billion for highway trust fund
Buttigieg proposal part of candidate’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan.
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Trucking
ATA’s Spear sees other ways to pay for infrastructure in the next decade
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…
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Legal issues
“Problem Solvers” look to break infrastructure standoff
Raising the gas tax a priority despite pushback by conservatives.
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News
Tech group calls for national road-user fee
ATA points out that the proposal, to be officially unveiled on Capitol Hill this week, makes several wrong assumptions.
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