House OKs Transportation Bill, Opposes Raising Insurance Requirements for Truck Companies
Despite Democrats’ objections over the bill’s proposed funding for infrastructure grant programs, the GOP-led House on June 10 narrowly passed a fiscal 2015 transportation funding bill 229-192.
June 10, 2014Daily Briefings from Transport Topics
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Commerce Committee to Hold DOT Nominations Hearing June 11
Senators are likely to press two senior Department of Transportation officials on highway funding, safety and freight policy when a committee considers their nominations June 11 for top jobs at the department.
June 10, 2014Obama Signs Water Bill To Boost Ports
President Obama on June 10 signed a water policy bill into law that allows dredging at ports throughout the country, ahead of the expansion of the Panama Canal.
June 10, 2014White House Opposes House Spending Bill’s Truck Size, Weight Provisions
As lawmakers prepare to pass a House transportation spending bill June 10, a recent White House bulletin took issue with provisions in the bill that would allow heavier commercial trucks to operate in three states.
June 10, 2014Love’s Creates Factoring Service
Love’s Travel Stops said it has created Love’s Financial, a factoring service meant to help drivers manage business and cash flow needs.
June 10, 2014Senate Panel Takes Step to Fix HOS Restart
WASHINGTON — A Senate panel voted overwhelmingly June 5 to suspend for one year changes to the hours-of-service restart provision implemented last year by federal truck safety regulators, and also approved a fiscal 2015 transportation spending bill.
June 9, 2014Ferro Again Defends Rule’s Safety Benefit
The head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration told a Senate panel her agency knew last year’s hours-of-service rule changes would affect trucking’s productivity and that she expects there to be a large amount of data showing it is increasing safety.
June 9, 2014Pilot Program to Speed TWIC Enrollment to Become Nationwide, TSA Official Says
A pilot project in two states to require only a single visit to enrollment centers where truck drivers and other transportation workers obtain a Transportation Worker Identification Credential is being expanded nationwide, Transportation Security Administration officials told a Senate subcommittee last week.
June 9, 2014Regulators Grant Livestock Haulers HOS Exemption
Federal regulators have granted drivers transporting livestock a one-year exemption from an hours-of-service requirement that they take a 30-minute rest break before driving no more than eight hours.
June 6, 2014Senators Praise TIGER in Transportation Bill’s Report
Senate transportation funding leaders defended the need for the Department of Transportation’s popular infrastructure grant program and the way in which the department selects the grant winners, despite an effort by conservative lawmakers to significantly reduce the program’s funding allocation in recent years.
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