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Why Truckers Should Reconsider Their Opposition to Tolling


Why Truckers Should Reconsider Their Opposition to Tolling

Tolls should replace, rather than be charged in addition to, current fuel taxes (implemented by providing fuel tax rebates for the miles driven ...

Fact-checking the trucking industry's claims against tolling

Trucking organizations attack tolls as unfair and costly to collect by ignoring the low cost of all-electronic tolling collection and the economies-of-scale ...

Tolling is Getting Creative... and Costly for Trucking [Commentary]

Sometimes tolling schemes single out only truckers engaged primarily in interstate commerce. Sometimes they target all drivers in the form ...

Indiana Trucking Association Urges Gov. to Abandon Tolling - NATSO

Furthermore, the economic impacts calculated for a potential statewide tolling program fails to account for the loss of business and opportunity costs of higher ...

Paying the Toll - Economic Policy Institute

A new, carefully considered regulatory framework could be established that would minimize the burdens on trucking companies, their employees, and consumers.

Alabama truckers fight truck-only toll proposal in Mobile - Overdrive

... trucks only that would carry with it a $15 toll for trucks. ... reconsider tolling only trucks using the bridge to help fund the project.

Trucking Industry Opposes Tolling Expansion - EZ Freight Factoring

Though the prospective revenue would go to infrastructure improvement and make driving easier on truckers, this system of tolling seems like an unattractive ...

Truckers really don't want to pay $24-36 to drive into Manhattan

Many of those lawsuits argue the tolling scheme was approved by federal transportation officials without proper scrutiny and the court should ...

A NYC Toll Which Could Charge Truck Drivers $36 Per Entry

Essentially, trucking companies have expressed that chaos will unfold in light of a truck-included congestion program. They assert that businesses (their ...

Palace Coup: President Ronald Reagan and the Surface ...

... truckers could not afford to stop driving. The truckers saw the 1982 STAA ... reconsider their position on these huge truck taxes." He predicted a walk ...

Rhode Island Lawmaker Introduces Legislation to Repeal Truck ...

If truck-only tolls are allowed to move forward, truckstops and travel centers will suffer when trucks divert around tolls, ultimately changing the footprint of ...

Rhode Island's New Route for Funding Bridge Repairs: Truck Tolls

The American Trucking Associations also warned Raimondo that her administration's plan to prevent trucks from leaving highways to avoid tolls ...

Issues & Policies - Truckload Carriers Association

... oppose tolling and will advocate that the toll plan should incorporate the following attributes: ... Codes and their applications must be compatible with general ...

Rhode Island Department of Transportation

Yes, the plan drew objections from the trucking industry, which opposed the call for tolls on large trucks to help pay for the repairs. But as Ms. Paiva Weed ...

Truckers, facing the highest fees, sue to block NYC congestion pricing

Many of those lawsuits argue the tolling scheme was approved by federal transportation officials without proper scrutiny and the court should ...

R.I. Trucking Issues 'Call to Arms' Over Route Restrictions ...

However, the commission will convene a hearing to reconsider the matter in early September. ... He acknowledged that there probably will be a ... tolling, Rhode ...

Focus returns to truck-only tolls in Connecticut - Land Line Magazine

Ned Lamont included a toll provision for many car and truck drivers. The Democratic governor's plan was quickly shot down by members of his own ...

What Does Trump's Presidency Change About Trucking

Ultimately the decision will rest in the hands of Congress, but Trump hopes to get funding for his plan through tolls, private investments and potentially fuel ...

Columbia River Crossing Tolling Study Committee Report to the ...

There is a high level of opposition to tolling I-205. • Tolling as a ... A high number of survey respondents indicated. • they would strongly ...

Truckers suing to block New York's congestion fee for Manhattan ...

Many of those lawsuits argue the tolling scheme was approved by federal transportation officials without proper scrutiny and the court should ...