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Truck parking expansion money still elusive on Capitol Hill

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WASHINGTON — Despite receiving more attention than ever from the trucking industry and the Biden...

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Once again California tells a court AB5 isn’t disrupting trucking in state

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With the next freight-related legal battle in California centered on a request for a new injunction...

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OOIDA calls long delay in truck broker rate transparency rule ‘BS’

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WASHINGTON — After years of waiting and prodding from small-business truckers, federal regulators...

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Truck parking in Texas, Louisiana gets $33.5M boost from DOT

The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded a combined $33.5 million to build new truck parking facilities in Texas and Louisiana as project sponsors find ways around a lack of dedicated funding pools for such projects.

A truck travel plaza in Caldwell County, Texas, was awarded $23 million from DOT’s Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) program, a competitive grant program used to fund freight and passenger transportation projects.

Another truck parking...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-parking-in-texas-louisiana-gets-335m-boost-from-dot

FMCSA targets early 2023 for decision on broker transparency petition

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Two groups representing small-business truckers should know by early next year whether federal...

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Shippers ready to fight driver overtime pay bill in Congress

Truck with depiction of cash following on the road.

Legislation aimed at ensuring overtime pay for truckers is getting close scrutiny from a major shipper group that plans to fight hard against it if the bill starts to gain steam.

The Guaranteeing Overtime for Truckers Act, introduced in April by Rep. Andy Levin, D-Mich., would repeal the motor carrier exemption in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), an exemption that excludes many drivers from overtime pay protections.

“Truck drivers across the country face brutal working conditions marked by...

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Foes of hours-of-service changes make arguments in federal appeals court

A federal court heard oral arguments in a petiton by several groups to roll back some of the trucking Hours of Service changes implemented in 2020.

A three-judge panel hearing arguments Monday against some of the changes in the hours-of-service rule implemented by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in 2020 focused roughly equal time on the modification of the 30-minute break rule and changes in rules for short-haul providers.

While there were other provisions in the changes from May 2020, the Teamsters and a coalition of groups focused on safety challenged those two modifications in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/foes-of-hours-of-service-changes-make-arguments-in-federal-appeals-court

OOIDA urges Biden administration to bust driver shortage ‘myth’

The Biden administration should reject the notion that there is a shortage of truck drivers and instead focus on why carriers find it difficult to keep drivers in their ranks, according to the largest small-business trucking lobby.

In a letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association pressed the department’s Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness (ACSCC) to resolve the underlying causes of excessive driver turnover – also known...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ooida-urges-biden-administration-to-bust-driver-shortage-myth

Feds deny Pronto.AI exemption from 14-hour driving window

Pronto.AI has failed to convince federal regulators that its technology is sufficient to safely allow for additional driving time during work shifts or would allow drivers to safely extend their 14-hour workday.

In a decision scheduled to be posted in the Federal Register on Monday, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) asserted that the autonomous trucking startup was not able to provide enough data to explain why its request for a five-year exemption from the 14-hour driving...

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Truck safety group debates driver pay vs. driver shortage

A study examining how driver safety correlates with age and experience sparked a discussion among members of a federal safety panel about whether higher pay should be used to address a potential future shortfall of qualified drivers.

The discussion followed a July 14 presentation by Susan Soccolich, a researcher at Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, to the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee (MCSAC), which makes recommendations to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).

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