Drivers of heavy-duty vehicles may find their traveling abilities through the Great Lakes State, as legislators there have introduced a Bill that will, with limited exceptions, make it illegal for a vehicle weighing more than 10,000 pounds to use the leftmost lane on any highway that has two or more lanes.
As we established in a previous article, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order explicitly requiring the enforcement of a prior regulation saying that CDL-holders must understand English. To fulfill that Executive Order, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is planning to implement a test to make sure those who are questioned about their English fluency are able to talk the talk, so to speak.
The American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) has said on numerous occasions that the Federal Excise Tax (FET) is an inefficient system of collecting money that’s externalities cause it to not be worth the struggle, but seldom does the other side of the equation come into question: the shortfall in funding that removing the FET altogether would bring. ATRI has a solution.
We have written at great length about Biden-era infrastructure investments, and how things have changed (or in some cases, stayed the same) with the transition to the second Trump Administration. One such case is the lawsuit of sixteen states trying to get money from established funds. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy is working to get those infrastructure projects underway.
Yesterday we published an article about a coalition of sixteen different states suing California regarding the Advanced Clean Fleet regulation. This is not a case of deja vu; the exact same number of states happen to be running their own lawsuit against the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has given up on the Advanced Clean Fleet (ACF) rule in its entirety, after a recent lawsuit.
The only thing that is predictable about the second Trump Administration is that it is unpredictable.
The 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump has already signed numerous executive orders in the first year of his second term in office.
