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5. The “Value-Added Tolling” policies fail to address traffic diversion
Communities in and around toll facilities, whether electronic or cash tolling, will suffer as interstate travelers will attempt to avoid paying the toll by exiting the interstate, ATFI contends. This traffic will divert onto local roads, making them less safe due to increased congestion, hurting first responder emergency response time, and hastening deterioration of the […]
April 9, 2014
Business
4. The Federal Interstate System Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Pilot Program (ISRRP) has failed
Expanding the failed ISRRP program is poor public policy, says ATFI. In the 15 years since the creation of the program no state has placed tolls on existing federal interstates. The purpose of the program was to give states the flexibility to try tolling existing interstate capacity as a funding mechanism while providing the federal […]
April 9, 2014
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3. The policies of “Value-Added Tolling” are based on flawed assumptions
According to ATFI: Policy #1 (limiting the use of toll revenues to toll facilities) assumes a continued reliance on overly optimistic revenue and traffic projections used to issue bonds in order to finance tolls roads. These estimates often fail to materialize once a toll road is reconstructed or maintenance is completed. Examples of revenue projections […]
April 9, 2014
Business
2. The trucking industry is not the only business community opposed to tolls
A wide range of businesses and industries have expressed opposition to placing tolls on existing federal interstate capacity, ATFI says. Individual companies such as McDonald’s, Dunkin’ Donuts, FedEx, UPS, and Volvo Group North America are fighting tolls. Industry organizations including the International Franchise Association, the National Council of Chain Restaurants, and the National Motorists Association […]
April 9, 2014
Business
1. Electronic Tolling is an inefficient means of collecting revenue
Although electronic tolling can mitigate some challenges traditionally associated with tolling facilities, it creates a bureaucracy with its own set of inefficiencies that makes it a poor option for collecting revenue, ATFI argues. Third-party data shows electronic tolling can consume up 20 percent of revenue collected for administration, operation, and enforcement costs. Administration costs: Under […]
April 9, 2014
Business
Cummins unveils new ISG large-displacement diesel engine platform
Cummins Engine along with Foton, one of China’s leading heavy truck producers, April 8 introduced a new truck model powered by the new ISG diesel engine.
April 8, 2014
Business
OOIDA petitions FMCSA to delay driver compliance with medical examiner rule
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association has filed a legal petition asking the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to push back the compliance date of the medical examiner registry rule until more agency-certified examiners are available for truck operators.
April 8, 2014
Business
ATRI seeking driver feedback for hours of service, detention time studies
The American Transportation Research Institute announced this week it’s looking for input from truck operators on the impacts of the current hours of service rule and about detention time for two separate studies it’s working on.
April 8, 2014
Business
21 indicted in NY in scheme to pay for CDL test answers
New York has indicted twenty-one more people for involvement in a fraudulent Commercial Driver’s License test-taking scheme.
April 8, 2014
Business
Diesel continues downward slide, drops another 1.6 cents
The national average price for a gallon of on-highway diesel fell again in the week ended April 7, down another 1.6 cents to $3.959, according to the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration.
April 7, 2014
Business
NTSB safety rec’s to NHTSA include blind spot mitigation, underride guards, trailer data collection
The National Transportation Safety Board is recommending that regulations be put in place to require new trucks to be equipped with systems to boost blind spot awareness and side and rear underride guards and to require that better data be collected on trailers involved in crashes.
April 7, 2014
Business
Truck Parts & Service taking nominations for Distributor of the Year award
CCJ sister site Truck Parts & Service is accepting nominations for its 2014 Distributor of the Year award.
April 7, 2014
Business
Great Dane recalling 1,000 flatbeds, International recalling 124 ProStars
Great Dane is recalling more than 1,000 2013-2015 flatbed trailers for potentially faulty brackets used to store J-hook cargo restraint plates, and Navistar is recalling 124 2014 International ProStar tractors built with rear axle shafts that are too short.
April 7, 2014
Business
Class 8 orders see another solid month in March
Class 8 orders in March were solid again in March, rounding out a quarter that points toward a growth cycle for truck sales, according to data released last week by firms FTR and ACT Research.
April 7, 2014
Business
Intermodal rail traffic sets March record; up 52 months in a row
U.S. rail traffic increased in March for both carload and intermodal volume, compared to year before, the Association of American Railroads reports.
April 7, 2014
CCJ Innovators
CCJ Innovator: Averitt Express
As a company that’s been in business 40 years and has grown every step of the way, Averitt Express has no thoughts about resting on its laurels. The Cookeville, Tenn.-based company (CCJ Top 250, No. 26) continues to seek ways to push ahead and set itself apart from the pack. Averitt operates at 143 locations […]
April 5, 2014
Business
A CCJ Photo Gallery: The Nifty Fifties: Trucking in 1954.
By the 1950s, America was clearly the world’s leading nation. Trucking was helping fuel the booming economy and well on it’s way to becoming a leading national industry and technological front-runner in its own right.
April 4, 2014
Business
Agency reinstating ‘informal hearings’ as mechanism to challenge violations
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has reinstated informal hearings as an additional way to contest enforcement cases, and this time the option is available nationwide.
April 4, 2014
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