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Business
Trump meets with truckers at White House
During the event, President Trump climbed in the cab of the ATA Share the Road truck, a Mack Pinnacle, blew the air horn and let the Road Team members take selfies with him. He was later pictured on social media in the White House wearing an I Heart Trucks pin.
March 23, 2017
Business
Trump’s budget plan cuts infrastructure improvements
President Donald Trump unveiled an outline for his “America First” proposed budget for 2018, which cuts the Department of Transportation’s funding by $2.4 billion, or 13 percent.
March 16, 2017
Voices
3 in 4 readers see necessity in Trump’s travel ban, halted yesterday in federal court
If the administration’s travel ban advances beyond the injunction put in place by the courts Wed., it would restrict travel to the U.S. from six countries — Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — also including measures aimed at restricting refugee resettlement in the U.S.
March 16, 2017
Business
The trillion dollar debate: Can private toll roads significantly help highway funding crisis?
Trump’s plan for bolstering infrastructure funding with investments from the private sector could buoy the country’s ability to repair worn highways. It could also expand the number of toll roads in the U.S. But how can private money really fill the highway funding void?
March 8, 2017
Business
Truck OEMs, trucking orgs join in asking new EPA head to maintain clean diesel program
DERA offers rebates and grants to owners of diesel-powered equipment to aid in retrofitting older engines with more modern, lower emissions technology or in replacing older equipment all together. Trucking stakeholders hope to convince Pruitt of the program’s merits.
March 7, 2017
Business
Trump illustrates need for $1 trillion infrastructure package with advice from a ‘friend in trucking’
In his first address to Congress, President Trump asked lawmakers for a $1 trillion infrastructure investment. Earlier this week, Trump said he consulted with a friend in trucking, who told him U.S. highways cause his trucks to be “just beat to hell.”
March 1, 2017
Voices
Build the wall? Majority of readers favor Trump’s border plan
More than half of Overdrive readers supported efforts to build a wall across the 2,000-mile U.S. border with Mexico. The most vocal among responding commenters, however, were those among the 27 percent who did not support the wall effort in any way.
February 28, 2017
Business
Who’s in charge at FMCSA until Trump can nominate a new boss?
Though President Trump’s choice to run the Department of Transportation, Elaine Chao, has been confirmed by the Senate and begun work at the DOT, there’s still a litany of posts Trump must fill at the DOT, including naming a new administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
February 16, 2017
Business
Truck speed limiter mandate, emissions regs part of lawsuit against Trump two-for-one regs order
Three left-leaning groups hope to block Trump’s recent order, citing truck safety regulations like a recently proposed rule to require speed limiters on heavy-duty trucks, as reasons why.
February 10, 2017
Business
Trump, trucking and regulations: Takeaways from the first two weeks of the Trump Administration
Speed limiters, driver training, ELDs and more — If the barrage of Trump news has left you a little dizzy, here’s a quick look at the key trucking-specific happenings from the new administration in its first two weeks.
February 6, 2017
Channel 19
North Dakota contemplating 80-mph speed limit
How fast is fast enough? Revisiting the question in light of a potential boost in speed limits to 80 mph in North Dakota, and more on Trump’s two-for-one out/in regulatory order …
February 6, 2017
Business
Senate confirms Chao to head DOT under Trump
Chao told a Senate panel earlier this month her three main goals as head of the U.S. DOT will be to bolster infrastructure funding, bridge the divide over rural and urban transportation need and find better balance between federal regulations and concerns of businesses regulated by the DOT.
January 31, 2017
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