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Transport Topics government and regulatory coverage keeps managers of a highly-regulated industry aware of the policy decisions that can shape their businesses. Covering both the legislative and regulatory aspects of policy-making, at both the state and national levels, the news in this category includes looks at infrastructure, hours of service, emissions rules, funding measures, leadership appointments, and more. Readers can follow what’s happening in Congress, at the Department of Transportation and the Federal Motor Carrier Administration, and in state and local governments.

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NAFTA Talks Expose Disagreement Over Mexican Trucking Access

As efforts to renegotiate terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement shift from Ottawa to Washington, two trucking industry groups and the Teamsters union are taking aim at a provision in the current agreement that allows trucks from Mexico to operate in the United States.

October 5, 2017
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Self-Driving Vehicles Raising Big Questions Around Drunk Driving, Seat Belts, Open Container Laws and More

The idea of highways being filled with self-driving cars may be alluring, but it has highway safety experts raising numerous questions about common contemporary issues like drunk driving, seat belt use and how other motorists might react to a car without a driver behind the wheel.

October 5, 2017
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Iowa Court Cuts CRST Van Expedited Attorney Fees

A federal judge in Iowa has sliced to $1.9 million an award for attorney’s fees to CRST Van Expedited, the latest turn in a 10-year battle over a class-action sexual harassment lawsuit that a judge dismissed after ruling that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission brought a frivolous complaint against the carrier.

October 4, 2017
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Senate Committee Approves Self-Driving Vehicles Bill Without Trucking Policy

An effort to attach trucking-centric provisions to Senate legislation on self-driving vehicles did not materialize during the bill’s consideration Oct. 4.

October 4, 2017
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ATA Chief Applauds Senators Supportive of Trucking Policy in Autonomous Bill

Efforts to include trucking-centric provisions in autonomous vehicle legislation that a committee will consider Oct. 4 were applauded by American Trucking Associations President Chris Spear.

October 3, 2017
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Shippers Discuss ELDs, Intermodal in Cowen Survey

Shippers expect to put more freight on railroads next year as concern persists about how the electronic-logging device mandate will tighten trucking capacity in 2018, according to a Cowen and Co. survey.

October 3, 2017
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Celadon Acknowledges Active SEC Investigation

Celadon Group Inc. offered new information into its financial situation while confirming it is under a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into the value of used trucks donated to a joint venture company.

October 3, 2017
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Guardrail Maker Wins Reversal of $663 Million Judgment

Guardrail maker Trinity Industries Inc. won’t have to pay a $663 million judgment that was awarded in a whistle-blower lawsuit alleging the company defrauded the U.S. government with a faulty highway guardrail safety system.

October 3, 2017
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Pennsylvania Proposes 6% Warehouse Tax

Pennsylvania is floating a tax on warehouse services as a way to help close the budget gap, a move critics say could threaten the fastest-growing sector of the Lehigh Valley economy and force customers of third-party logistics providers to relocate to neighboring states.

October 3, 2017