Food producers and shippers are adjusting to changes in their transportation needs just as increasing demand for products and supplies is running up against forthcoming rules that will regulate the condition of the industry’s goods and shipping equipment.
February 23, 2015BusinessGovernmentSafety
House Panel to Begin Highway Bill Work; Anthony Foxx to Testify on Transportation Funding
A House appropriations subcommittee will embark this week on the ambitious task of stitching together a fiscal 2016 highway and transit funding bill that can win support in both chambers of Congress before the current fiscal year ends Sept. 30.
February 23, 2015GovernmentBusinessTechnologyEquipment
FMCSA Delays Publication of E-Log Rule to November
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — An official with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said the agency plans to publish its final electronic logging device rule in November, rather than on the agency’s previous projected date of Sept. 30.
February 23, 2015BusinessFuelGovernment
Diesel Gains for 2nd Week
U.S. retail diesel prices rose last week, by 3 cents a gallon, the first back-to-back increase for the fuel average since June.
February 23, 2015Government
Foxx Ends Bus Tour by Asking People to Send Congress ‘Picture of a Pothole’
WASHINGTON -- Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx wrapped up a weeklong bus tour of the southeast Feb. 20 by telling about 100 supporters at Union Station to urge Congress to approve a highway bill before funding for infrastructure projects expires in May.
February 20, 2015Government
DOT Announces $232.5 Million to States for Bridge, Road Repairs
Twenty-six states and Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, will receive $232.5 million in emergency funding to repair highway infrastructure damaged by recent weather events, the Department of Transportation announced Feb. 18.
February 19, 2015GovernmentBusiness
Anthony Foxx to Tout Infrastructure at D.C.’s Union Station
On Feb. 20, the secretary is scheduled to wrap up his weeklong regional tour where he will promote infrastructure spending at an event in Union Station in Washington, D.C.
February 19, 2015GovernmentBusinessSafety
FMCSA Extends Comment Period on Crash Weighting
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said it will accept comments for an additional month on its crash-weighting analysis published in January.
February 19, 2015Government
California Democrat Hahn Won’t Seek Re-Election to Congress
U. S. Representative Janice Hahn, a California Democrat, said she will run for an open seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors instead of seeking re-election to Congress in 2016.
February 18, 2015BusinessGovernmentSafetyAutonomous
Sorbon Transport Shut Down by FMCSA
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has placed a Colorado-based trucking company out of service, labeling the firm an “imminent hazard to public safety,” the agency said Feb. 18.
February 18, 2015