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WASHINGTON — Truck safety advocates are warning federal regulators against approving a roadside...
A joint resolution by U.S. lawmakers aimed at ending the threat of a strike or lockout provides little incentive for avoiding a debilitating shutdown of the nation’s railroads, according to a former rail industry legal consultant.
Introduced in the Senate on Monday by Roger Wicker, R.-Miss., and Richard Burr, R-N.C., the legislation would adopt the recommendations issued in August by the Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) that were meant to be used as the foundation for a new contract. Such...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/rail-shutdown-looms-large-even-as-congress-steps-in
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is calling on President Joe Biden to help resolve a dispute between the country’s Class 1 railroads and 12 rail unions to avert a possible rail strike beginning July 18.
In a letter sent to the White House on Wednesday, U.S. Chamber President Suzanne Clark warned that the decision last month by the National Mediation Board (NMB) to release the railroads and unions from mediation and begin a 30-day cooling off period “presents a new challenge to the U.S. business...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/big-business-calls-on-biden-to-avert-rail-strike
As the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s expert on supply chain and customs-related issues, John Drake recently added two related policy areas — transportation and infrastructure — to his portfolio that are also major priorities for his members.
In his new role as the vice president of transportation, infrastructure and supply chain policy, Drake is tasked with leading the Chamber’s advocacy on all those issues on Capitol Hill and within the administration.
Given his promotion earlier this month, we...
This fireside chat recap is from Day 3 of FreightWaves’ Global Supply Chain Week.
FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Policy solutions for the supply chain crisis
DETAILS: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is trying to steer pro-business policy discussions around port congestion and visibility, domestic manufacturing resilience for critical supplies, and infrastructure funding disbursements.
SPEAKER: John Drake, vice president of supply chain policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
BIO: Drake oversees the development and...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/gscw-chat-us-chamber-focused-on-multiple-supply-chain-issues
Federal officials are undermining the market dynamism that allowed American businesses to flourish during the pandemic by overreaching on to curb the power of big companies and underachieving on trade policies that would open up new markets, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Suzanne Clark said Tuesday.
One of the business group’s top priorities this year, she said in her first “State of Business” address, will be to thwart the Biden administration and lawmakers from pursuing heavy-handed...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/us-chamber-biden-too-fixated-on-market-concentration-slow-on-trade
This commentary was written by Dave Kearby, executive director at TRIP. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates.
By Dave Kearby
As the U.S. interstate highway system reaches 65 years old on Tuesday, it is congested, carries significant levels of travel — particularly by large trucks — and lacks adequate funding to make needed repairs and improvements. America’s most critical transportation link will need...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/viewpoint-the-interstate-system-turns-65-its-time-to-modernize-it
Commercial truck driver jobs are forecast to make some of the biggest gains if the Biden administration’s infrastructure package can get through Congress without major revisions, according to a report analyzing the plan.
Thereport, by Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW), was published just as President Joe Biden was releasing his American Jobs Plan last week. It is based on infrastructure-related policy data and information that the administration has made public...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/report-trucking-jobs-account-for-20-of-bidens-infrastructure-plan
Last-mile delivery and the electric vehicles it will take to fuel it will require a jump start from public money that should be included in the next infrastructure package, according to parcel delivery giant UPS (NYSE: UPS).
Speaking on a panel hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, Thomas Jensen, the company’s senior government relations executive, pointed out that while electrification has been touted extensively by the Biden administration, there have been few details on how the...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ups-feds-must-help-fund-electric-last-mile-delivery
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary nominee Pete Buttigieg acknowledged on Thursday that raising the federal gas tax will be one of the options to fund “major investments” needed for highway infrastructure.
“I think all options need to be on the table,” Buttigieg said during his confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate’s Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee.
“The current state of the highway trust fund [HTF] is that there’s more going out than coming in, and up until now...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/buttigieg-raising-gas-tax-on-the-table-to-pay-for-infrastructure