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RAIR, which sells safety and compliance products, said on June 16 that it has made two upgrades to its products aimed at the federal Compliance, Safety, Accountability program.

Rep. John Mica (R) Fla.), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has set July 7 as his target date for unveiling his six-year reauthorization bill.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has asked its advisory committee to examine concerns about the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program’s roadside violation severity weightings.

An anti-fraud bill introduced in the House would raise the freight broker surety requirement to $100,000 and require separate broker and carrier licenses.

Consumer confidence fell in June to a seven-month low, the New York-based Conference Board said Tuesday.

Imagine a time when a statewide trucking organization, in order to help its state government pay for necessary improvements to roads and bridges, supports a proposal that the state float a bond issue to cover the work and volunteers to have its members pay most of the bills for the work through a jump in the diesel fuel tax.

With Congress slated to spend its summer on budget negotiations and the debt ceiling, legislative leaders said reauthorization of transportation funding has been crowded off the agenda until September, if not later.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration hopes to relaunch its controversial Mexican trucks pilot project by mid-August, according to an agency official.

The ability of state and local governments to raise cash by leasing or selling transportation assets to private investors would be slowed, if not killed altogether, under a bill introduced by Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Illinois).