Tag: American Trucking Associations

Roadbuilding

R.I. begins collecting first tractor-trailer-only tolls; trucking associations plan legal challenge

The electronic toll systems will target tractor/truck tractors, pulling a trailer/trailers, deemed as Class 8 or above. Tolls will be added on other highways.

June 12, 2018

Roadbuilding

USDOT establishes advisory committee on transportation automation

The U.S. Department of Transportation has formed a new advisory committee tasked with focusing on automation issues across the transportation industry, including automated vehicles and research, policy and regulations. The first meeting will be held Jan. 16. “During my time at the department, we have fostered some of the most significant technological changes to ever […]

January 13, 2017

Roadbuilding

ARTBA, ATA to host event honoring 60th anniversary of Interstate Highway System

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) and the American Trucking Associations (ATA) have a planned a “lunch and policy discussion” June 29 to recognize the 60th anniversary of President Eisenhower’s signing of the law enacting the Interstate Highway System. Brian Pallasch, managing director, government relations and infrastructure initiatives for the American Society of […]

June 21, 2016

Roadbuilding

House hearing highlights gridlock over gas tax increase despite universal desire for long-term transportation funding

Members of the House Ways and Means committee agreed in their Wednesday hearing on long-term Highway Trust Fund (HTF) financing hearing that action and solutions are needed as soon as possible, but diverged in their thoughts on the methods of providing that funding. In his opening remarks, committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) reiterated the need for […]

June 18, 2015

Roadbuilding

AAA, ATA, U.S. Chamber of Commerce urge Congress to pass permanent fix for the Highway Trust Fund

With the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) inching ever so closer to insolvency, organizations are redoubling efforts to ensure Congress is passes a permanent fix, rather than a patch. AAA, the American Trucking Associations, and the U.S Chamber of Commerce submitted a joint letter to Congress Jan. 26 urging members of the 114th Congress to raise […]

January 27, 2015

Roadbuilding

States Aren’t Waiting Around for Federal Support

It’s time for a holistic approach at the federal level.

December 4, 2013

Business

Lawmakers, experts discuss solutions, stress urgent need for stable, increased highway funding

Over half of the highway miles traveled in the United States are on roads in less than good condition, said Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairman of the Senate Environmental & Public Works Committee. She spoke at the Infrastructure for the Future conference Thursday in Washington, D.C., where experts tied the pressing need for road and […]

November 22, 2013

Roadbuilding

Getting the Job Done Right

Ohio Governor Kasich has taken partisan politics out of the process by including a full spectrum of stakeholders with the Ohio Jobs and Transportation Plan.

February 5, 2013

Roadbuilding

Kirk Landers, Editor Emeritus

Here is the letter I sent to my senators and representatives.

December 1, 2012

Roadbuilding

California to appeal ruling against fuel standard

States considering a Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) will be watching the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to see if it will overturn a lower court’s decision that California’s LCFS is unconstitutional. The appellate court has set an April 16 deadline for the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to file its opening brief after the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California court refused to suspend judgments and a preliminary injunction Jan. 23 against CARB enforcing the standard.

February 3, 2012

Safety

Truck-related fatalities up 8.7% in 2010

While overall highway deaths in 2010 were at the lowest level since 1949, truck-related fatalities increased for the first time in three years, the U.S. Transportation Department announced Dec. 8. Truck-involved deaths rose 8.7 percent last year from 2009 to 3,675, including drivers and passengers. Truck driver fatalities increased 6 percent to 529, with 64 percent […]

December 8, 2011

Roadbuilding

RoadWorks: Inside the Highway and Bridge Industry

Taxes for improving the infrastructure, public investors cooperating with government agencies and a new hall of fame are in the news.

April 1, 2010