The long-standing debate over how to fund transportation was kicked into high gear Feb. 26, when President Obama and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp issued radically different tax plans for generating revenues for the Highway Trust Fund, which is set to expire at the end of October.
02-27-2014 Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said Feb. 12 that she aims to introduce a highway funding bill in April, more than six months before the current policy expires.
02-13-2014 The Alliance for Toll-Free Interstates (AFTI), of which NATSO is a member, urged truck drivers to get involved in the fight to keep existing interstates toll free in a recent article published in The Trucker.
02-13-2014 Raising fuel taxes remains the best option for generating critical revenues for the Highway Trust Fund by ensuring that funding levels keep up with inflation without threatening businesses that serve interstate travelers, Lisa Mullings President and CEO of NATSO said in a recent column written for CSP Magazine.
02-07-2014 Tolling existing interstate highways would cripple the U.S. supply chain, hurting manufacturers, shippers, distributors, and consumers, according to Chris Garrett, owner of Golden Strip Transfer in South Carolina and a member of the South Carolina Trucking Association.
02-07-2014 House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) said he wants a five to six-year highway bill, but he rejects higher fuel taxes as a means of paying for it.
02-05-2014 Garvin Oil began in 1957 in Wagner, S.C. as a small family-owned petroleum jobber. As more family members took a stake in the fuel company, the Kent’s Korner brand was established to serve the convenience store market. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Kent’s Korner brand grew. Store numbers doubled and the business is now made up of 21 stores — 19 convenience stores and two travel centers.
02-05-2014 The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure has formed the Panel on Public-Private Partnerships that will focus on the use of public-private partnerships across all modes of transportation, economic development, public buildings, water, and maritime infrastructure and equipment.
01-23-2014 Lawmakers in South Carolina have introduced legislation calling for tolls on a portion of Interstate 95 in the state. Sen. Bradley Hutto and Sen. Kevin Johnson introduced the bill, which would implement a toll along I-95 where it crosses Lake Marion in either Orangeburge or Clarendon County. Hutto said that because Interstate 95 is a federal highway, all money collected through the toll would go toward repairs and improvements on Interstate 95 only.
01-17-2014 U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx officially outlined his top priorities for the Department of Transportation, highlighting America’s infrastructure deficit and identifying ways for the Department to use innovation and improved planning to stretch transportation dollars further. Foxx said he sees signs the nation may finally be ready to tackle its “infrastructure deficit.”
01-16-2014 Members of Congress met this week to discuss the future of highway funding, and House Transportation Committee Chairman Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) said he wants the House to pass a new transportation funding bill by August to allow time for conference negotiations with the Senate. The current highway bill expires Sept. 30.
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