Highway & Transportation

Nearly 80 percent of NATSO’s truckstop and travel plaza members are located within one-quarter mile of the Interstate Highway System. NATSO supports a robust federal highway program that is funded through the motor fuels tax. The fuel tax remains the most efficient and equitable method to raise dedicated highway funds and represents the ultimate user fee or pay-as-you-go approach to funding infrastructure. NATSO opposes revenue measures that are inefficient and disrupt interstate travel and freight movement, such as the tolling of interstate highways.

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  • First House Transportation Hearing Addresses Infrastructure Funding Issues

    In the first of a series of Congressional hearings that will lay the groundwork for Congress to draft infrastructure legislation, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Feb. 7 heard from elected officials as well as members of the private sector. Among those who testified were Former Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and UPS Freight President Rich McArdle, who testified on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Witnesses were pressed to address their positions on various funding options, including whether increasing the motor fuels taxes, tolling or public private partnerships were viable methods for funding the nation’s long-term infrastructure needs.

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  • NATSO, Allies Urge Congress to Support Off-Highway Businesses by Maintaining the Ban on Commercial Activities at Rest Areas

    NATSO led a group of 15 trade associations representing off-highway communities, businesses, alternative fuel advocates and the National Federation of the Blind in urging Members of Congress to oppose efforts to commercialize Interstate rest areas as they consider infrastructure legislation this year.

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  • President Offers No Details on Infrastructure in State of the Union

    President Donald Trump renewed his call for a major infrastructure investment during his State of the Union address on Jan. 5, but offered no details on his plans as he urged Republicans and Democrats to work together to pass legislation to rebuild and revitalize the nation’s crumbling infrastructure.

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  • VA. General Assembly Tables I-81 Tolls This Session

    Efforts to toll Interstate 81 in Virginia appear to have been put on hold this legislative session after the Virginia Senate Finance Committee adopted a substitute measure that establishes the Interstate 81 Corridor Improvement Fund but does not identify any funding options for improving Interstate 81.

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