The American Trucking Associations and the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association presented their own takes on what trucking needs from Congress during a Senate subcommittee hearing.
The American Transportation Research Institute reports that toll revenues have risen 72.54% over 10 years, with $14.7 billion in revenue collected in 2018 alone.
House Democratic leaders unveiled the outlines of a $760 billion, five-year infrastructure package that includes an ambitious climate agenda.
The decline of our nation's highways is evident in our 2019 Fact Book, with statistics indicating increasing congestion in our busiest regions and an increasing need for repair.
Texas A&M Transportation Institute recently published its 2019 Urban Mobility report and the picture it paints is of an urban gridlock issue that has only been getting worse each year and costing Americans billions of dollars.
The Reason Foundation’s Annual Highway Report found that the nation’s highway conditions are deteriorating, especially in a group of problem-plagued states that are falling behind on repairing deficient bridges, maintaining interstate pavement and reducing urban traffic congestion.
New bill would authorize $287 billion over five years, with that total marking an increase of over 27% from levels of the FAST Act highway bill.
Testifying before a House subcommittee, several trucking stakeholder groups made a case for the importance of trucking to the U.S. economy and offered plans on how to improve it, from infrastructure funding to safety regulations.
A bill that would raise the federal cap on private activity bonds for surface-transportation and freight-improvement projects has been rolled out to the House of Representatives by a bipartisan group of lawmakers.
An alarming report on the state of the nation’s bridges shows that over 47,000 bridges in the United States are rated structurally deficient and in need of urgent repairs.