Trucking Regulation

EPA gives trucking OEMs whiplash with emissions rule rollback plan

EPA gives trucking OEMs whiplash with emissions rule rollback plan
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On Wednesday, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that the EPA is reviewing the emissions rulemaking put in place under the Biden-Harris administration. The important part for trucking comes from targeting the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles – Phase 3, or just Phase 3, rules, which began with model year 2027 trucks and extended through 2032. 

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La EPA anuncia las reversiones de las reglas de emisiones de Biden-Harris

El administrador de la Agencia de Protección Ambiental, Lee Zeldin, anunció el miércoles que la agencia está revisando las reglas de emisiones establecidas bajo la administración Biden-Harris. El anuncio fue parte de otras 31 acciones que la agencia está emprendiendo de la ráfaga de las órdenes...

https://fullavantenews.com/la-epa-anuncia-las-reversiones-de-las-reglas-de-emisiones-de-biden-harris/?lang=es

Trump’s NHTSA nominee raises concerns among truck safety advocates

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy promised at his Senate nomination hearing a Department of Transportation that would be “data-driven and safety-driven,” but truck safety advocates are concerned that President Donald Trump’s pick to lead one of Duffy’s modal agencies may not be on the same page.

Jonathan Morrison, who has been nominated to be administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, was chief counsel at NHTSA during the first Trump administration when...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/trumps-nhtsa-nominee-raises-concerns-among-truck-safety-advocates

EPA announces rollback of Biden-Harris emissions rules

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced on Wednesday that the agency is reviewing emissions rules put in place under the Biden-Harris administration. The announcement was part of 31 other actions the agency is undertaking from the Trump administration’s flurry of day-one executive orders.

Included in the announcements, the EPA plans to take aim at the previous administration’s Clean Trucks Plan, which included rules on nitrous oxide emissions from heavy-duty trucks....

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/epa-announces-rollback-of-biden-harris-emissions-rules

Former Federal Highway Administration chief counsel now heads FMCSA

WASHINGTON — Adrienne Camire has been appointed to lead the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration as both deputy and acting administrator, FMCSA announced on Friday.

Adrienne Camire. Credit: FMCSA

Camire, who was chief counsel at the Federal Highway Administration during the first Trump administration, had been named senior adviser at FMCSA by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in January.

“Thank you to President Trump and Secretary Duffy for their confidence in me to serve in this...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/former-federal-highway-administration-chief-counsel-now-heads-fmcsa

New York City wants wider use of WIM technology to fight overweight trucks 

New York City is declaring again that it has made significant progress keeping overweight trucks off a key highway using a weigh-in-wotion (WIM) system. Now it wants to expand the use of the technology to other parts of the state that handle heavy truck traffic.

The WIM technology is on the unique cantilevered section of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, designated Interstate 278, that runs between south Brooklyn and north into Queens. The cantilever is a three-tiered structure that moves...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/new-york-city-wants-wider-use-of-wim-technology-to-fight-overweight-trucks

House, Senate reintroduce trucker overtime pay bill

WASHINGTON — Legislation that would give truck drivers the right to overtime pay was reintroduced in both the House and Senate on Thursday.

The Guaranteeing Overtime for Truckers Act would eliminate an exemption in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 that gives employers the right to exempt their drivers from overtime compensation – meaning they’re excluded from guaranteed time-and-a-half pay if they work more than 40 hours a week due to traffic congestion, weather or delays at loading...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/house-senate-reintroduce-trucker-overtime-pay-bill

Tariff impacts on diesel prices will likely hit New England first

New England will probably be ground zero for observing how a 10% tariff on Canadian crude and refined product exports to the U.S. hits prices at the pump.

While Mexico is also facing those tariffs, that country is mostly an exporter of crude to the U.S. Along with significant Canadian crude exports to the U.S., it may take an undetermined amount of time for imports on a raw material like crude to show up in a retail diesel or gasoline price. (Mexico’s tariff is 25%).

However, New England is...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/tariff-impacts-on-diesel-prices-will-likely-hit-new-england-first

House passes Postal Service truck crash reporting bill

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday passed a bill that would require the U.S. Postal Service to crack down on safety lapses involving its long-haul trucking contractors.

The Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act of 2025, bipartisan legislation spearheaded by U.S. Reps. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., and James Comer, R-Ky., and would give Postal Service truck contractors and employees three days to report to the agency any crash they are involved in that results in injury or death.

It...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/house-passes-postal-service-truck-crash-reporting-bill

Los legisladores de la Cámara de Representantes reintroducen la factura de estacionamiento de camiones

WASHINGTON-La Ley de Mejora de la Seguridad del Estacionamiento de Truck se reintrodució el jueves en el Congreso para dedicar subvenciones federales específicamente para aumentar los espacios de estacionamiento disponibles que los camioneros necesitan desesperadamente para descansar durante las horas fuera de servicio. La última versión del proyecto de ley reservaría $ 755 millones durante […]

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