Texas Highway's Developers Struggle to Pay Bank Loans
The road with the highest speed limit in the nation — state Highway 130 in Texas — may be making headlines again, this time for its developer going broke, possibly, at some taxpayer expense.
June 26, 2014Washington Opens Additional Lane on Road Destroyed by Mudslide
A second lane has been opened on Washington’s Route 530, the timber highway buried by a mudslide in March that killed 42 people.
June 25, 2014FMCSA Takes Minnesota Bus Company Off the Road For Safety Violations
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has put a Lakeville, Minnesota, bus company out of service for safety violations ranging from equipment deficiencies to hours-of- service compliance and record keeping.
June 24, 2014Schumer to Foxx: Step it Up on ELDs
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is calling on Transportation Sec. Anthony Foxx to speed up the rulemaking process that will put electronic logging devices on all trucks to help monitor hours of service compliance.
June 16, 2014D.C. Delegate Introduces Obama’s Transportation Bill
A Republican congressman and the nonvoting Democratic delegate from the District of Columbia have teamed up to introduce a bill in the House that incorporates President Obama’s $302 billion transportation funding plan to be paid for with corporate tax reform.
June 12, 2014Chicago Planning Agency Proposes Freight Fund for Infrastructure
The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning unveiled a report that suggests creating a special metropolitan freight fund to pay for freight-related infrastructure improvements.
June 12, 2014DeFazio Introduces Bill to Replace Gas Tax with Barrel Tax on Oil
WASHINGTON — Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) has introduced a bill to replace the gasoline tax with a barrel tax on oil, eliminate the sales tax on truck tires, and index the diesel tax to inflation.
June 12, 2014LaHood Going to Work for Caterpillar
Former Transportation Sec. Ray LaHood has been hired as a consultant by Peoria, lllinois-based Caterpillar Inc., the heavy equipment maker.
June 6, 2014Transport Bill Would Require FMCSA to Post Final Rule for ELDs by Jan. 30
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration would be required to issue its final rule that all trucks have electronic logging devices by Jan. 30 under the transportation appropriations bill moving through the Senate.
June 6, 2014Ferro Tells Senate Panel HOS Rules are Working
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Anne Ferro told a Senate panel that the agency knew its new hours-of-service rules would affect trucking’s productivity but that data is expected to show the HOS rules are increasing safety.
June 3, 2014