January 3, 2013
As public officials look to public-private partnerships and toll roads as one way to address the issue of infrastructure funding, one question that comes up is whether fewer trucks will use the toll roads, thus leading to lower toll revenues than anticipate
Tags: Government, Infrastructure, Tolls, Pennsylvania
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Thursday, January 3, 2013 8:49 AM | » Comments(0)
November 20, 2012
Increasing fuel taxes may be a near-taboo topic on Capitol Hill, but as state legislators and governors look to 2013 budgets and highway funding, a number are considering raising state fuel taxes to pay for needed infrastructure work
Tags: Government, Highways, diesel, Infrastructure
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Tuesday, November 20, 2012 2:28 PM | » Comments(0)
November 8, 2012
So what does Tuesday's election mean for trucking -- specifically, the need to get to work very soon on the next highway bill
Tags: Government, Infrastructure, Highways
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Thursday, November 8, 2012 8:08 AM | » Comments(0)
October 16, 2012
Listen to opponents of cross-border trucking and you might envision hordes of unsafe, broken-down Mexican rigs swarming across the border. That hardly seems to be the case, given a recent report from the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Transportation
Tags: Government
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Tuesday, October 16, 2012 3:19 PM | » Comments(0)
August 29, 2012
"That's what we're looking for now - transportation.
Tags: Government
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Wednesday, August 29, 2012 7:54 AM | » Comments(0)
August 15, 2012
We finally got a highway bill, but since it only runs two years, it's something either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney is going to have to deal with during the next presidential administration
Tags: Government
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Wednesday, August 15, 2012 6:13 AM | » Comments(1)
July 15, 2012
Sounds like U.S. officials aren't the only ones who think the answer to problems such as greenhouse gas pollution and congestion is to shift freight off of trucks
Tags: Government
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Sunday, July 15, 2012 1:44 PM | » Comments(0)
April 11, 2012
Kudos to U.S. Rep. Brian Higgins for daring to think big when it comes to infrastructure
Tags: Government
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Wednesday, April 11, 2012 12:17 PM | » Comments(0)
February 19, 2012
The Federal Highway Administration recently named the third and final state in a pilot program on adding tolls to existing Interstate highways. But obviously there are already tolls on many Interstates. What gives
Tags: Government
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Sunday, February 19, 2012 10:37 AM | » Comments(0)
December 28, 2011
Two stories hit my desk last week that highlight the place of tolls and public-private partnerships in the debate on infrastructure funding
Tags: Government
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Wednesday, December 28, 2011 10:22 AM | » Comments(1)
December 20, 2011
As our elected officials on Capitol Hill continue to kick the can down the road on a highway bill, one presidential hopeful was caught on tape saying as much as he hates borrowing, transportation infrastructure might be one place it makes sense
Tags: Government
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Tuesday, December 20, 2011 6:29 AM | » Comments(1)
November 15, 2011
A U.S. Senate bill granting generous tax credits for using natural gas as a motor fuel will create jobs, make the United States more self-sufficient in energy and has broad bipartisan support, say Democrat and Republican senators who introduced it yesterday
Tags: Government
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Tuesday, November 15, 2011 6:23 PM | » Comments(0)
September 9, 2011
Is an infrastructure bank a "Fannie and Freddie for roads and bridges," or a silver bullet to fix the nation's crumbling roads and bridges and create jobs
Tags: Government
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Friday, September 9, 2011 11:26 AM | » Comments(0)
September 8, 2011
There'll be no extensions to the seven-year legal life of 2004-model transport refrigeration units (TRUs), which will expire Dec. 31 if the California Air Resources Board sides with the recommendation of its staff
Tags: Government
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Thursday, September 8, 2011 11:31 AM | » Comments(0)
August 15, 2011
UPDATED -- It seems these days the only thing Congress can agree on is that they disagree on most everything. Now that the debt ceiling crisis has passed, the next battle could affect you
Tags: Government
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Monday, August 15, 2011 11:49 AM | » Comments(1)
August 1, 2011
Four years ago this week, the eight-lane, 1,907-foot-long I-35W highway bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis experienced a catastrophic failure in the main span of the deck truss, with more than 100 vehicles on the 1,000-foot span when it collapsed.
Tags: Government
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Monday, August 1, 2011 2:36 PM | » Comments(0)
May 2, 2011
As the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration goes about rewriting its hours of service rules for truck drivers, it has been careful to make sure those changes are backed up by scientific studies. But it's starting to look like the regulators need to go back to science class
Tags: Government
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Monday, May 2, 2011 1:54 PM | » Comments(0)
February 18, 2011
"Until there is a consequence to the shippers, and those who are receiving the freight, they're going to keep abusing the truck drivers.
Tags: Government
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Friday, February 18, 2011 12:55 PM | » Comments(1)
January 27, 2011
I've heard a lot of talk about the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's new hours of service proposal. It's too complicated, it would harm productivity, it wouldn't improve safety, and so on. But have you told all that to the agency yet
Tags: Government
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Thursday, January 27, 2011 2:19 PM | » Comments(0)
December 7, 2010
Infrastructure investment was one of the areas President Barack Obama singled out as "necessary for America to win the future" in a speech this week on the economy at Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Tags: Government
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Tuesday, December 7, 2010 10:26 AM | » Comments(0)
November 8, 2010
Now that the elections are over, Mexican officials are likely to push even harder to get the cross-border trucking dispute ironed out in this window of time before the 2012 elections start consuming the administration's attention
Tags: Government
Author: Deborah Lockridge | Posted @ Monday, November 8, 2010 3:46 PM | » Comments(0)