Fuel taxes

Carriers must pay fuel taxes to states they travel through, but the process can be complicated and time-consuming due to the various jurisdictions. Even a simple filing mistake can trigger an IFTA audit and bring unwanted scrutiny upon the carrier.

Carriers continue to face fines and out-of-service violations because they don’t understand the difference between intrastate and interstate operating authority.

An American Transportation Research Institute study finds the cost to deploy and collect a vehicle-miles-traveled tax would be 300 times more than the current fuel tax.

A year after studying nuclear verdicts in truck crashes, the American Transportation Research Institute is focusing on smaller verdicts as its top research priority while also looking behind the scenes of rising truck insurance premiums.

Funding likely to remain elusive for proposal that focuses on zero-carbon initiatives.

Darren Prokop writes about the need for a solution to repair and improve the nation’s highways and bridges. What are the options and is there the political will to develop a solution?

Old Dominion has made a commitment to donate up to $250,000 to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief fund.

A credits markets reporter writes about the waning value of the motor fuels tax screen. A logistics company starts-up in Myanmar. And the supposedly available US labor pool is not as available as one might think

No signs yet on agreement on how to pay for it.

Increased electric vehicle adoption could lead to higher fuel taxes; drone deliveries could be a nuisance to neighborhoods; EU believes that the U.K. might vote in favor of the Brexit agreement this January.

After about two weeks of rioting on the streets of Paris, the French people have gotten their government to agree to their demands of rolling back on the added fuel taxes aimed at funding anti-pollution initiatives.

Protests over rise in fuel taxes have turned violent in Paris, leaving two dead and 600 injured.

A mileage-based user fee pilot program using Azuga technology is helping to prove the viability of mileage-based vehicle taxes.

Fuel taxes disproportinately hurt independent truckers because they are not able to recoup fuel-expenses.

U.S. Chamber of Congress president, Thomas J. Donohue, is preparing for an uphill battle to push for a raise of the federal gas tax by 25 cents per gallon to help shape the debate about upgrading U.S. roads, bridges, airports and other infrastructure.

Technology startup FR8 Revolution has received an investment from Sandhills Publishing as well as announced a new technology partnership with the company.

A combination of slowing economic growth, burdensome tax policy, and weak infrastructure is crippling Brazil’s transportation and logistics industries. 

Californians are about to see huge increases in the fuel taxes they pay at the pump. California’s Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017, was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown (D) in April and will begin taking effect this Wednesday with a 12 cent jump in the gasoline base excise tax and a 20 cent spike in the diesel fuel base excise tax.

Someday real soon, vehicles will self-diagnose themselves, order the repair parts, and maybe even replace the part themselves. Vehicle maintenance is already partially of the way there. but the U.S. Marines are going a step further.