Jill DunnBusinessRhode Island backpedals on trucks-only toll plan, still aiming for Class 8 tolls as main bridge funding sourceRhode Island lawmakers have scaled back a plan to pay for repairs to the state’s infrastructure with a truck-only toll on about two dozen bridges.June 4, 2015BusinessTruckers protest Rhode Island toll planTruckers are voicing opposition to Rhode Island’s proposal to fund repair of the state’s deteriorating infrastructure by adding truck-only tolls on about 20 bridges.June 2, 2015BusinessRhode Island proposes truck-only toll“Highway robbery” — trucking associations respond to Rhode Island’s move to a ten-year plan to fund repair of the state’s deteriorating infrastructure by adding a truck-only toll on 17-20 bridges.May 29, 2015BusinessDOT highway bill that would require detention time pay filed in U.S. HouseHouse transportation committee members last week reintroduced the White House’s Grow America Act, a six-year highway bill that would designate half a trillion to U.S. roadways in the next six years and mandate that truck operators be paid by their employers for on-duty hours not spent driving.May 27, 2015BusinessHighway funding safe for 60 more days as Congress clears latest stopgap measureThe Senate this weekend cleared the two-month highway funding patch passed last week by the U.S. House, securing solvency for the U.S. Highway Trust Fund until July 31. This is the 33rd such short-term measure in the last decade.May 25, 2015BusinessPort terminal operator to require truck drivers to stay in trucks at its terminalsBy the end of 2016, APM Terminals’ will require all truckers entering their facilities to remain in their trucks.May 20, 2015BusinessNTSB’s latest report still provides no cause for FedEx crash that left 10 deadA year and a 2,150 pages later, officials still don’t know what caused a truck to cross the median and crash into a bus of high school students in Orland, Calif. But investigators can tell you what the trucker ate for breakfast that morning.May 18, 2015BusinessStriking port truckers return to work following deal with carriersSouthern California truckers demanding to be reclassified as company employees have quit striking at three of the four non-union drayage firms they began picketing last Monday.May 4, 2015BusinessCalifornia truckers continue strike over misclassification claimsCalifornia truckers serving the ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach continue to strike, picketing their drayage company employers and demanding to be reclassified as employees instead of contractors.April 30, 2015BusinessTruckers picket at SoCal ports, demand to be classified as employeesPort truckers for four companies serving the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles began picketing April 27 demanding they be reclassified as employees and not independent contractors.April 28, 2015Previous PagePage 12 of 38Next PageTop StoriesRegulationsEPA set to unravel 'disastrous' federal trucking emissions regulationsThe proposal would remove all greenhouse gas standards for heavy-duty vehicles and heavy-duty engines.Small Fleet ChampLast call! Just days left to compete for 2025 Small Fleet Champ honorOverdrive RadioOOIDA, ATA, Teamsters scrum in Senate hearing: 'Driver shortage,' ELP, CDL fraud, driverless trucks, moreCustom RigsGear Jammer Magazine Truck Show: Winners, drag racing tips and tricks, historyFeatured SponsorDezl Trucking Headsets 100/200 Series - Life on the road never sounded so good
