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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    House appropriators are concerned about how DOT is handling virtually all of its major grant programs, an issue that has been a significant area of oversight for Democrats, Politico reported June 3.

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  • Rep. DeFazio to Focus on Transportation Reauthorization After Infrastructure Talks Fall Apart

    House Transportation Committee Chairman Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) plans to pursue a surface transportation reauthorization as well as individual pieces of infrastructure legislation after infrastructure talks between Democratic Leadership and the White House broke down on May 22.

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  • Rep. Blumenauer to Introduce Bill to Increase Motor Fuels Taxes

    One day before President Donald Trump and Democratic Congressional leaders are scheduled to discuss ways to pay for a 2$ trillion infrastructure plan, Rep. Earl Blumenauer plans to introduce a bill to increase the motor fuels tax by 5 cents a year for the next five years and indexing it to inflation.

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