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ProMiles, Teletrac Navman partner to offer GPS tracking, automatic fuel tax reporting

ProMiles brings its automated fuel tax reporting system to the partnership, which will combine with Teletrac Navman’s GPS tracking system.

December 12, 2016

New Jersey passes bill to increase per-gallon diesel tax by more than 30 cents next year

The fuel tax increase includes a 23-cent increase to petroleum taxes across the board, and another four-cent increase for diesel fuel, which will take effect Jan. 1, 2017, through the end of June. The diesel tax is also set to increase by another four cents per gallon after July 1, 2017.

October 11, 2016

Overdrive Extra

Highway bill: So much, yet too little

The new highway bill did nothing to create stable user-based funding to make our infrastructure program self-sustaining.

December 18, 2015

The new highway bill does not address needed reform of the federal fuels tax, the major funding source for the Highway Trust Fund. The tax was last changed for gasoline and diesel in 1993.

Georgia truckers challenging Peach State’s use of fuel taxes for non-highway spending

The Georgia Motor Trucking Association, J&M Tank Lines, F&W Transportation and Prolan Logistics filed the suit earlier this month, arguing all revenue obtained from state and locally collected fuel taxes should be spent “for public roads and bridges or road construction and maintenance.”

October 1, 2015

House bill would up fuel taxes to pay for highways, tie rate to inflation

The U.S. House this week introduced a bill that would tie the current flat rate fuel tax to inflation as a long-term highway funding measure and appropriate an immediate $12 billion to the Highway Trust Fund to ensure short-term solvency.

April 16, 2015

POLL: Is it time to raise the fuel tax to fund highways?

An Oregon Democrat and a Wisconsin Republican recently joined forces in the House of Representatives to push a 15-cent fuel-tax hike introduced last year.

December 5, 2014

Per freshly signed state law, Calif. to test feasibility of mileage tax

California Gov. Jerry Brown Oct. 3 signed legislation into law that will allow the state to implement a pilot program to test whether charging a road usage fee — or mileage-based tax — could effectively replace fuel taxes as the primary means to fund highways and road projects.

October 3, 2014

Missouri voters speak: Sales tax not the place for raising highway monies

Voters in Missouri say no to sales tax increase of .75 cents on the dollar to fund transportation — and prohibit tolls and fuel tax increases.

August 7, 2014

Interstate 70 within Missouri’s borders has been under the microscope for potential tolling under a federal pilot program for tolling existing lanes for the last several years. Tuesday’s ballot measure in Missouri would have scuttled such plans definitively for 10 years had it been successful.

Fuel-tax hike for highway funding eyed in Senate finance committee

A plan to keep federal highway funding solvent through December no longer includes a hike in the Heavy Vehicle Use Tax hike, but has been amended to increase the fuel tax.

June 26, 2014

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Fuel tax hike proposed in Senate to shore up highway funding

A proposal in the Senate is pursing the oft-cited and trucking-backed solution for shoring up the Highway Trust Fund: an increase in the tax on diesel and gasoline at the pump.

June 19, 2014

Support rallying for increase in fuel taxes to fund roads

More voices in support of raising fuel taxes as a means to fund the nation’s attention-starved highways came this week at a Senate committee held to discuss creation of the next highway reauthorization bill.

February 14, 2014

State legislatures consider fuel tax increase as highway funding option

New Hampshire, Maryland and Massachusetts are all eying potential increases in tax on fuel as a means to increase revenue and support transportation projects in the states.

April 16, 2013

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