If President Clinton has his way, fuel taxes that are supposed to pay for improving the nation’s roadways could be put to other uses. Clinton’s budget for next year calls for diverting billions of dollars in fuel tax revenue from the highway trust fund to a variety of other transportation programs
Read More →The Mid-West Truckers Assn. is hosting its 36th annual truck show and convention this week in Springfield, IL
Read More →South Dakota legislators have heard an earful of opposition on a proposed plan that would use scale receipts to help track down overweight trucks
Read More →Truck Net Inc., which has a popular trucking-related web site, has formed a strategic alliance with a company that makes public-access Internet devices or kiosks
Read More →Ohio has a new toll-free number to report stranded motorists or road rage
Read More →Sweden’s Volvo is talking to Navistar International about a possible buyout, merger or alliance, reports the London-based Financial Times newspaper
Read More →The dreaded weight-distance tax has reared its ugly head in a bill in the Arkansas state Legislature
Read More →Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore has ordered a state police crackdown on speeding on Interstate 81, where four people died last month in a multiple-vehicle crash
Read More →Trucks in the Chicago area would face both annual and random emissions tests under a new bill being drafted by state House speaker Michael Madigan
Read More →Citing “more up-to-date information” regarding the cost of providing payphone service, the Federal Communications Commission has lowered the surcharge on toll-free calls from 28.4 cents per call to 24 cents per call. The surcharge is the result
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