Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP) is constructing a grain transload facility near Chicago to benefit Midwest agricultural producers and processors and reduce their supply chain costs.
The company is building the facility within its Global IV intermodal terminal in Joliet, Illinois. The Union Pacific Global IV Transload Facility will be managed by JCT, a 50-50 joint venture between Consolidated Grain and Barge Co. and...
The American Trucking Associations (ATA) wants the Biden administration to reclassify truck drivers into higher priority status for receiving COVID-19 vaccines.
In a letter sent Wednesday to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the ATA and 49 state trucking associations requested that the CDC move truckers into phase 1b of its COVID-19 vaccine recommendation from their current status in phase 1c.
The latest recommendations from the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ata-wants-higher-vaccine-priority-for-drivers
U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., plans to push President Biden and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to prioritize vaccines for food product haulers.
“I plan on asking President Biden, and hopefully a [DOT] Secretary [Pete] Buttigieg, what they are going to do to help prioritize vaccines to those critical transportation workers who are moving food product,” Cantwell said Wednesday during an executive session meeting of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation....
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