Tag: Highway Report Card

Channel 19

How to save fuel: ‘Fix the roads!’ researchers say

We all know the tire makers have done their due in improving truck-tire rolling resistance in recent years to help operators save fuel with tire choices. Two Auburn University researchers say it’s time for the paving industry and the governments that allocate funds for roads to step up to the plate. They located a holy […]

August 1, 2011

Channel 19

Popular Mechanics seeks ‘Worst Road’ nominations

Make your voice heard! No, I’m not talking about the proposed mandate of electronic onboard recorders for hours of service compliance (for more about that: comments are open through May 23). Popular Mechanics editors are seeking out the “worst road in the USA,” they say at the magazine’s website. Who better to nominate it than […]

April 27, 2011

Channel 19

Third time’s the charm? Feds say no to tolling I-80 in Penn.

A development that could mark the end of a long saga (you could make a case that it goes back to the 1980s — heck, even that it begins prior to the establishment of the Interstate Highway System itself) happened yesterday with the third federal rejection of an application by the state of Pennsylvania for authority […]

April 7, 2010