As lawmakers prepare to pass a House transportation spending bill June 10, a recent White House bulletin took issue with provisions in the bill that would allow heavier commercial trucks to operate in three states.
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Love’s Creates Factoring Service
Love’s Travel Stops said it has created Love’s Financial, a factoring service meant to help drivers manage business and cash flow needs.
June 10, 2014Graves, ATA Respond on Turnpike Fatality
In the wake of a much-publicized turnpike crash in New Jersey involving a truck and TV celebrity, ATA President Bill Graves appeared on NPR and CNN; he also wrote an opinion piece in USA TODAY today discussing the hours-of-service rules for truck drivers and trends in highway safety.
June 11, 2014House OKs Transportation Bill, Opposes Raising Insurance Requirements for Truck Companies
Despite Democrats’ objections over the bill’s proposed funding for infrastructure grant programs, the GOP-led House on June 10 narrowly passed a fiscal 2015 transportation funding bill 229-192.
June 10, 2014Commerce Committee to Hold DOT Nominations Hearing June 11
Senators are likely to press two senior Department of Transportation officials on highway funding, safety and freight policy when a committee considers their nominations June 11 for top jobs at the department.
June 10, 2014Regulators Grant Livestock Haulers HOS Exemption
Federal regulators have granted drivers transporting livestock a one-year exemption from an hours-of-service requirement that they take a 30-minute rest break before driving no more than eight hours.
June 6, 2014Senators Praise TIGER in Transportation Bill’s Report
Senate transportation funding leaders defended the need for the Department of Transportation’s popular infrastructure grant program and the way in which the department selects the grant winners, despite an effort by conservative lawmakers to significantly reduce the program’s funding allocation in recent years.
June 6, 2014Senate Panel Takes Step to Fix HOS Restart
WASHINGTON — A Senate panel voted overwhelmingly June 5 to suspend for one year changes to the hours-of-service restart provision implemented last year by federal truck safety regulators, and also approved a fiscal 2015 transportation spending bill.
June 9, 2014Commerce Infrastructure Grants Program Backed By Federal Lawmakers
WASHINGTON — An infrastructure grants program designed to assist communities struggling with high unemployment improve their freight connectivity was backed by a Senate funding committee June 5, following approval by the Republican-led House in May which included it as part of a 2015 spending bill.
June 5, 2014Panel Adopts HOS Amendment, Advances Transportation Bill to Full Senate
Senate appropriators today adopted an amendment to suspend some provisions of the 'hours-of-service' rules for one year while a DOT study is conducted.
June 5, 2014