A new advertising and grassroots campaign by ATA might just sell Congress on fixing our roads. Commentary by David Cullen, Executive Editor.
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The trucking industry experienced a setback in its challenge of Rhode Island’s new truck-only tolls, as a federal judge dismissed the American Trucking Associations’ lawsuit.
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In his remarks at the TMC Annual Meeting in Atlanta, ATA chief Chris Spear said the maintenance council is vital to ATA creating narratives that can help drive real change in Washington.
Read More →What’s holding back development and passage of a monumental infrastructure package is not politics. It’s plain old wrong-headed thinking, says Executive Editor David Cullen in his Passing Zone blog.
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Traffic is a major time suck and it only seems to be getting worse, according to ATRI's latest list of the most congested bottlenecks for trucks in the U.S. This year, a bottleneck in Fort Lee, New Jersey took top honors.
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In his State of the Union address, President Trump again said he wants America’s infrastructure revamped and implied that Congress still does, too – but he offered no new details on how to go about it.
Read More →As Virginia lawmakers work to try to address congestion problems on I-81, including a controversial toll proposal that critics say is unfair to trucking, one creative proposal has come up that would put trucks on trains – drivers and all.
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Jim Tymon also backs upgrading of the Highway Trust Fund and notes that state DOTs must replace retiring staffers.
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A congressionally mandated report finds the future of the Interstate Highway System so at risk that it recommends that drastic action should be taken over a period of years-- including hiking federal fuel taxes and allowing tolling and per-mile-charges on more interstate routes.
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It’s a bumpy ride in the city – and getting bumpier, according to a new report on the deteriorating state of America’s urban roads.
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