Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) on Aug. 8 urged the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to hold New York state accountable for its violation of the federal law prohibiting commercial rest areas.
08-08-2017 Expanding commercial services at rest areas, including liberalizing the definition of “vending machine,” threatens consumers, small business and localities by undercutting the highway-based businesses that currently operate near the interstate exit interchanges, NATSO said in comments filed with the Department of Transportation (DOT) July 24.
07-25-2017 The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) National Coalition on Truck Parking released its 2015-2016 activity report detailing ideas put forth for expanding truck parking nationwide during a series of regional truck parking stakeholder meetings held last year.
07-11-2017 As NATSO has previously reported, the Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is soliciting public input regarding expanding the types of goods and services that may be offered at […]
12-13-2016 The Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that it is establishing 48 national electric vehicle charging corridors on highways covering 25,000 miles in 35 states under an initiative to increase the deployment of plug-in electric vehicles.
11-14-2016 NATSO met with key regulators in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT’s) Federal Highway Administration Oct. 27. The meeting’s agenda was the proper implementation of a provision in the Highway Bill Congress passed last year directing DOT to establish “alternative fuel corridors” for alternative fueling stations.
11-01-2016 The Federal Highway Administration on Friday August 21 released a survey and analysis assessing truck parking in the United States. Although NATSO worked with FHWA to help the agency understand the issues involved in the supply and demand of truck parking facilities, FHWA’s survey failed to adequately explore the critical factors that influence truck parking.
08-24-2015 The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is requesting the truckstop and travel plaza industry’s help as it conducts a federally mandated survey of available truck parking across the United States.
04-08-2014 Truck size and weight legislation passed this week in the House continues to shine a spotlight on the issue and further strengthens the probability that size and weight will be a hotly debated issue when Congress begins working to reauthorize surface transportation programs next year.
07-24-2013 The Washington State Department of Transportation is seeking to toll Interstate 90. But already Congressman Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) is questioning the authority of the federal government to authorize such a plan.
07-15-2013 NATSO representatives attended the Federal Highway Administration’s first public session of its truck size and weight study, ordered by Congress in the transportation reauthorization bill enacted last year.
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