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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 whats happening in Congress, at the Department of Transportation and the Federal Motor Carrier Administration, and in state and local governments.

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Mack Announces Incentives Available for Electric Refuse Truck

Mack Trucks announced the Mack LR Electric model, the OEMs first fully electric refuse vehicle, is eligible for multiple incentive packages in the United States and Canada.

March 25, 2021
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Canadas Carbon Tax Upheld by Top Court, Cementing Green Agenda

Canadas efforts to combat climate change scored a major victory after the countrys top court ruled that Prime Minister Justin Trudeaus national carbon tax is constitutional

March 25, 2021
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Coalition Asks Biden Administration to Reduce Truck Emissions by Fall 2022

A wide-ranging coalition of business, science and environmental groups is calling on the Biden administration to within the next 18 months set multi-pollutant climate and clean air standards that will eliminate particulate matter, oxides of nitrogen and greenhouse gas emissions from new freight trucks and buses.

March 25, 2021
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Government Revises Q4 GDP Up Slightly to 4.3%

WASHINGTON The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 4.3% in the final three months of 2020, slightly faster than previously estimated.

March 25, 2021
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Jobless Claims Fall to 684,000, Fewest Since Pandemic

WASHINGTON The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell sharply last week to 684,000, the fewest since the pandemic erupted a year ago and a sign that the economy is improving.

March 25, 2021
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Buttigieg Pitches Infrastructure Needs to Divided Congress

WASHINGTON Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is warning that the countrys infrastructure needs exceed $1 trillion and that other countries, namely China, are pulling ahead of the U.S. with their public works investments, a scenario he describes as a threat to our collective future.

March 25, 2021
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Suez Canal Choked for Third Day as Elite Team Tackles Stuck Ship

A huge backlog of ships was building up around the Suez Canal for a third day as an elite salvage team set about the monumental challenge of freeing the container vessel thats blocking the crucial waterway.

March 25, 2021
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Bosch Research Calculates Value of Level 2 ADAS

Bosch Research announced that recent accident data it studied pointed to significant potential reductions in injuries and deaths, and to the cost savings that could result from equipping Classes 7-8 vehicles with advanced driver assistance systems focused on a trucks position in a lane.

March 24, 2021
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USDOT Begins Undoing Trump-Era Restrictions on Rulemaking

The U.S. Department of Transportation has begun the process of undoing a set of Trump-era regulations that ground agency work with industry to a halt and threatened to slow adoption of major policy goals of the Biden administration.

March 24, 2021
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Senate Commerce Committee Chair Looks to Infrastructure Investments

Approving massive investments for transportation projects would significantly improve the countrys economy, Maria Cantwell, chairwoman of the Senate Commerce Committee said at a hearing March 24.

March 24, 2021