Tag: appropriations bill

Business

I’ve been ‘Rick-rolled’

In which Wendy stoops in the Congressional-information/influence gain: “I popped off to Rick Crawford and I was just as ugly as the face of D.C. is, and I said something nasty about him personally, and lo and behold, he responded … with a wave of the hand.”

October 2, 2017

Voices

The 34-hour restart’s complicated limbo

Here’s the latest. Nothing about the 34-hour restart will change until FMCSA issues its certified report on its mandated comparative restart study. If the report says what many truckers have hoped, however, the restart could disappear entirely.

February 17, 2016

Channel 19

Oops: Appropriations bill may have done away with 34-hour restart entirely

Turns out the 34-hour restart-related item in the late-2015 Congressional appropriations bill may have done a little more than was intended, eliminating the restart entirely. Before you start (or continue, as it were) recapping hours, however …

February 12, 2016

Overdrive Extra

THUD update: House retains provision barring FMCSA from increasing insurance minimums, still no Senate bill

With Congress returning from its roughly two-week Memorial Day recess, work likely will resume in the coming week on 2016 appropriations bills for the DOT. And those bills could earn the trucking industry a few regulatory victories.

June 5, 2015

Business

Fancy words and rabid dogs

Floccinaucinihilipilification (noun): the estimation of something as valueless … “As in: ‘99% of the data gathered by the FMCSA is a pile of floccinaucinihilipification that costs the taxpayer a gabillion dollars.'”

June 5, 2015