Industry watchers were somewhat encouraged to learn that late last week the House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee proposed a six-year $325 billion surface transportation bill. Designated as the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015, it is a companion bill to the Senate legislation passed last summer. Among other things, the bill […]

For the past ten years there has been a considerable amount of discussion regarding the Over the road (OTR) truck driver shortage in the industry. The American Trucking Associations has released four major analyses of the issue, the latest on October 6. By now, you probably have read the prediction of a shortage of OTR […]

In this month’s DC Velocity, you will find an excellent read in Group Editorial Director Mitch Macdonald’s Outbound column. Under the title, “Misdirected Anger”, he discusses the lack of anger about the Congressional handling of highway funding when there is so much anger about everything else. I highly recommend it. As I have written here […]