Monthly Archives: April 2025

Bookings for freight on ships have declined 64% once tariff talk got real.

We’ve been tracking and talking about California’s high speed rail project since 2014. Wow, we’ve read a lot in the last nearly 11 years. Guess what the project cost for the LA-SF high speed rail project is up to now? $128 billion. “California high-speed rail is five years late, three times over budget, and nowhere […]

Virginia is the first state to enact a law that will allow judges to impose speed limiting devices for repeated reckless driving convictions. Georgia quickly followed Virginia by passing HB 308 (2025 | GA). A dozen states are considering similar measures. Governing | Vehicle Speed-Limiting Technology Gets a Foothold in State Law

Washington State is proposing a vehicle tax that will be imposed based on fuel efficiency. A proposed per mile fee would apply only to cars with more efficient engines.  Moneywise | Washington state may start charging drivers based on mileage and raise its gas tax to 58.4 cents per gallon as fuel-efficient and electric vehicles hurt […]

Oregon’s proposed transportation funding package includes a 20cent gas tax increase that is phased in from 2026-2032, title and registration fee increases, & a pay as your drive fee phased in based on type of vehicle. EVs would get the pay as you drive fee first, followed by hybrids. KGW8 | Oregon Legislature posts first […]

Together for Safer Roads  has formed to improve garbage truck safety by proposing higher vision windshields. Traditional garbage trucks with plain old windshields have a 23% higher pedestrian accident rate. London began requiring high vision garbage trucks and has seen a 49% reduction in the number of fatal collisions involving large trucks and a 64% reduction in crashes […]

Volvo is starting a subscription service for trucking. Bonjour, Volvo on Demand. The big truck: Volvo’s battery-electric trucks. The benefit to customers is eliminating the upfront cost of buying a big ‘ol truck. “Volvo on Demand is designed to remove barriers to adopting battery-electric trucks by offering a flexible, all-inclusive service model,” Logan Andrew, eMobility territory finance […]