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June 27, 2000 9:40 AM, EDT

Oregon’s weight-distance tax unconstitutionally discriminates against interstate carriers, according to a lawsuit American Trucking Associations plans to file against the state within the next month.

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The lawsuit was approved by the executive committee of the ATA Litigation Center at the trucking group’s summer leadership meeting last week.

ATA will use the same argument in Oregon that it employed to help bring down Idaho’s weight-distance tax.

Both states offer reduced tax rates to haulers of certain agricultural commodities.

For the full story, see the June 26 print edition of Transport Topics. .