The trade associations representing America’s trucking fleets, drivers and railroads today urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reject petitions to move the point of compliance under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) arguing that doing so would disrupt the fuels market and raise consumer prices without added benefit to consumers or the RFS program.
01-18-2017 NATSO ANALYSIS: President-Elect Trump Supports a $1 Trillion Infrastructure Package. Is This Necessarily a Good Thing for Travel Plazas and Truckstops? As the trade association representing the America’s travel plazas […]
01-09-2017 Congress on Dec. 9 passed a stopgap appropriations measure known as a Continuing Resolution to keep the government funded through April 28 that maintains a key provision in the federal Hours-of-Service rule that regulates truck driver work and rest pending the results of a Congressionally mandated study.
12-12-2016 Chris Spear, the new President of the American Trucking Associations, criticized the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) for excluding the trucking industry as it developed guidance on driverless vehicles.
10-31-2016 The NATSO Foundation, NATSO, the American Trucking Associations (ATA) and the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) on Oct. 3 launched a new mobile app designed to help the nation’s truck drivers more easily find truck parking.
10-04-2016 The NATSO Foundation, NATSO Inc., American Trucking Associations, the American Transportation Research Institute and the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance are joining forces to announce the official launch of Park My Truck, a new mobile app designed to share truck parking availability information with truck drivers.
09-21-2016 It is well known that higher productivity vehicles and fuel efficiency standards for trucks are gradually reducing the per-vehicle demand for diesel, which is likely to change operations at truckstop […]
08-31-2016 Truckstop and travel plaza operators attend The NATSO Show to gain insights into the trends that will affect their business. At this year’s show, Bob Costello, senior vice president and […]
01-01-2016 American Trucking Associations (ATA) President and CEO Bill Graves recently urged Members of Congress to keep the biodiesel tax credit at the blender level, saying that the incentive has been proven to lead to lower diesel prices at the pump. In a letter distributed to Members of Congress, Graves makes clear that converting the blenders credit to a producers credit is bad policy for consumers.
11-16-2015 House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) reiterated his opposition to raising the motor fuels tax to fund a long-term infrastructure program during a committee hearing in which industry groups urged Congress to quickly find a sustainable funding source for the Highway Trust Fund.
06-18-2015 The average driver’s age is 46.5-four years above the medium for the workforce as a whole.
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