Taxing Cows! The Insane EPA
June 9, 2009 by Truckdrivernews · Leave a Comment
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By Alan Caruba
Just how crazed is the Environmental Protection Agency? When I say “crazed”, I mean just how far out of touch with reality, with science, with the economy, with common sense, and with the American people is the EPA?
Ever since the Supreme Court made one of the greatest blunders since the Dred Scott case, [...]
Groups Call for Action on Energy Speculation
June 8, 2009 by Truckdrivernews · Leave a Comment
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As oil prices rose over $70 per barrel last week and Goldman Sachs raised its forecast for oil prices, the American Trucking Associations joined a coalition of trade associations asking Congress to rein in excessive speculation in the commodities markets.
ATA joined a broad coalition of 79 other trade associations in sending a letter urging Congress [...]
Trucking groups back higher weight
June 8, 2009 by Truckdrivernews · Leave a Comment
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More than 100 associations and companies — including Kraft Foods, MillerCoors and International Paper — today, June 8, officially launched the Coalition for Transportation Productivity (www.transportationproductivity.org), urging Congress to responsibly raise the federal vehicle weight limit on U.S. interstates.
CTP supports the Safe and Efficient Transportation Act of 2009 (H.R. 1799), which would increase the interstate [...]
FedEx Fights Back
June 8, 2009 by Truckdrivernews · Leave a Comment
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FedEx is expected to launch a multimillion-dollar lobbying offensive as early as Tuesday to thwart legislation that would put the Memphis, Tenn.-based package delivery company under the same labor laws as its main competitor, United Parcel Service Inc.
The legislation would make it far easier for some 100,000 FedEx Express drivers and certain other employees to [...]
Big ideas: Charge tolls on Pennsylvania’s interstates
June 7, 2009 by Truckdrivernews · Leave a Comment
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REVENUE POTENTIAL
$2 billion to $3 billion, estimate by Peter Samuel, editor of Tollroadsnews.com
PROS
- Highways are already in place and installation of infrastructure would be relatively inexpensive
- Tolls could be tailored to traffic levels and local conditions
- People would be paying for a “service” based on the amount they used it
CONS
- May not be possible to [...]
‘Big battle’ mounts over bigger big rigs
June 5, 2009 by Truckdrivernews · Leave a Comment
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Debate is heating up over an issue likely to strike terror in the heart of any driver who has spied an 18-wheeler looming in the rearview mirror as he scrambles into the slow lane: whether even bigger big-rigs should be allowed on the nation’s highways.
Federal law limits the weight and length of 18-wheelers on the [...]
U.S. might admit Mexican trucks
May 22, 2009 by Truckdrivernews · Leave a Comment
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The U.S. may reopen its roads to Mexican trucks as early as June, as tariffs levied in response to Congress’s decision to bar the vehicles put a “huge” burden on American producers, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said. Lawmakers, hearing from constituents upset about the tariffs, may switch their votes on the program, LaHood said Thursday [...]
Bill to reduce truck traffic kicking up a lot of dust
May 16, 2009 by Truckdrivernews · 1 Comment
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WASHINGTON — S1036, a bill just introduced in Congress which aims to increase use of non-highway, intermodal freight by 10 percent by 2020 has kicked up a lot of dust lately.
Rail coalitions and other groups are lauding it while trucking groups point out the problem of changing the distribution and supply chain network by which [...]
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