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The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is debating aviation policy in the form of the Aviation Innovation, Reform and Reauthorization Act, or AIRR Act, and a sliver of the 273-page bill concerns trucking.

Last May, speaking at a welcome dinner as part of a global ocean race, Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo urged those in attendance to take away two important points from the event.

It has been anything but business as usual along the Eastern Seaboard the past few weeks.

It’s time to wonder if crude oil, diesel fuel and gasoline are actually getting too cheap? A surprising notion, but for many people it’s already the case.

Safety within the trucking industry continues to improve.

No sooner than we ripped the plastic off our 2016 calendars came yet more news about the connection between the federal government and trucking.

So often, what appears at first glance to be mind-numbing statistical minutiae is actually a matter of genuine importance with significant real-world consequences.

The year is not coasting to a quiet conclusion.

With the end of 2015 coming up fast, the dam broke on the reservoir of governmental inactivity and the executive and legislative branches produced a torrent of trucking news.

Like life-giving rain on parched land, the December gift and package season brings joy and happiness to the recipients of holiday-themed freight and necessary sustenance to the people and carriers who deliver it.