Even an EV-friendly policy analyst acknowledged during a House subcommittee hearing that trucking faces big challenges in meeting the EPA’s new zero-emission regulations.
Local opposition and divided attention in Washington are hurdles that must be cleared before the trucking industry can get parking legislation passed.
Truckers, brokers and fuel retailers told Congress where they believe regulators are overstepping their authority — and where they need to step in.
From storing renewable energy stocks to tapping high-voltage transmission lines, the juice to power electric trucks has to come from somewhere.
The think tank report sees the funding coming from the service centers as a means to help rebuild interstate highways.
Lawmakers hear from trucking on outlook for achieving zero-emission vehicle targets
Pandemic heroes of the highway deserve mobile sites, NATSO says. Some drivers don’t think that’s a good idea.
Love’s Travel Stops is offering $75 to each of 28,000 employees across its businesses who voluntarily get the COVID vaccine.
NATSO and other retail fuels industry trade groups urge states not to join the Transportation Climate Initiative Program.
U.S. House lawmakers’ Climate Crisis Action Plan calls for 100% EV truck sales by 2040.
Current legislation to expand truck parking slated to expire.
In today’s edition of The Daily Dash, Roadrunner Transportation exits the truckload business; a road for autonomous vehicles only; and NFI makes a large acquisition.
Spending most of 2014 living out of an Airstream trailer allowed NATSO CEO Lisa Mullings to meet truck stop and travel plaza owners in 49 states “on their turf,” enriching her understanding of what mattered most to members of the trade group she has led since 2004.
Pilot Co. is joining a growing list of major truck stop chains, including Love’s Travel Stops and TravelCenters of America, that will start requiring all customers to wear face coverings this week to help curb the spread of COVID-19.
Following Love’s Travel Centers’ edict requiring face coverings at its truck stops, NATSO and the American Trucking Associations followed suit.
$1.5 trillion infrastructure bill passes U.S. House along party lines; includes truck insurance hike.
Provisions still face major scrutiny by Republican-controlled Senate.
Private business will be loath to invest in electric vehicle charging at travel plazas if states install chargers at public rest areas, says the trade group for truck stop operators.
The gradual restart of the economy includes dine-in restaurants at the travel plazas dotting American highways. Truckers will find socially distanced seating and fewer menu offerings — if they leave their trucks to investigate. Some say they won’t bother.
Freight haulers across transport modes join effort to raise awareness.
Continental is shutting down its Roadlog ELD service, as of Aug. 14. Plus, FreightWAVES LIVE@HOME is one day away, Trump pushes severing of supply chain from China, and Walmart launches two-hour delivery.
Plummeting prices make ExxonMobil’s fuel system-friendly diesel formulation that eliminates additives and reduces NOx emissions a better deal.
Retail coalition cautions federal government about potential dangers to easing restrictions on Interstates.
Trucking and travel plaza trade groups urge states to cut slack to truckers delayed by overzealous social distancing so critical freight can keep moving during coronavirus pandemic.
Exemption needed to protect against COVID-19-related fuel shortages, groups assert.
Travel center trade group grapples with keeping incentives for biodiesel after 2022 as Trump administration devalues renewable fuel credits by exempting small refineries from the Renewable Fuel Standard.
Small companies jittery about investing in biodiesel blending with the federal tax credit in limbo are moving in now that the tax incentive on the cleaner-burning fuel is set through 2022.
ChargePoint, with more than 108,000 electric vehicle chargers, and travel plaza and truckstop association NATSO will use Volkswagen “Dieselgate” settlement money and other funds to build out an electric charging infrastructure at 4,000 travel plazas by 2030.
Parcel drivers join long-haul colleagues in training to bolster community safety.
Advocacy groups differ on effectiveness of public and private financing to meet high demand.
The biodiesel blender credit reinstated by Congress Dec. 17 is a $3 billion a year boost to a less-polluting diesel fuel.
Those convicted will be banned for life from obtaining a CDL.
The nation’s top electricity regulator gives exclusive insight into how the infrastructure behind electric trucks could fuel the coming transportation transformation.
Tax incentives that make for cheaper diesel fuel ran out in 2018, and the trucking industry is looking for a vehicle on which to extend it. Could it be the border wall?
Little Rock, Ark.-based company trying to make fuel card processing less costly for truck stop operators.
Message from NATSO: Technology trends will force truck stop owners to reevaluate how they serve their customers.
Jubitz brings in about $40 million of the company’s $175 million annual revenues as the industry contracts and braces for tech and regulatory headwinds.
A united retail fuel industry thanked EPA and the Trump administration for hearing and responding to their concerns and proposing renewable fuel obligations.
Puthusseril testified that the Renewable Fuel Standard has succeeded because it allows fuel retailers to offer biofuel blends to consumers at a price that is less expensive than purely petroleum-based products.
President Trump issued his broad goals for infrastructure, but encouraged private investment over public
In these polarized times, one thing it seems everyone wants to see is improved roads and bridges. And to no one’s surprise, the devil is in the details.
The National Association of Truck Stop Owners has released a study showing a correlation between commercialized rest stops and lower available truck parking. We discuss the findings as well as the study’s limitations.
The “leaked” plan calls for liberalizing tolling policy and allowing states to commercialize interstate rest areas, among other things, as a means of funding infrastructure.
NATSO was invited by the House Committee on Homeland Security to discuss the insidious and pervasive issue of human trafficking.
