Category Archives: trucking

Business TREND,. Sharing Economy + Trucking Industry. 3 Key points.

Who is the new kid on the blcok offering trucking services on a sharing economy? KeepTruckin Inc.,

What start up facts do I need to know?

  • 6 year old company from San Francisco
  • startup a valuation of $1.2 billion
  • it is the latest freight technology venture to surpass the $1 billion mark

The employees and locations:

  •  1,000 employees
  • 7offices in the U.S., Canada, Taiwan and Pakistan
  • customer base is:
    • operators with more than 250,000 trucks
    • equipped with KeepTruckin ELDs
    • 50,000-plus…

Lege TREND. Curb Ride Share via Labor Code Legislation.

California AB 5 (2019 | CA) would codify state Supreme Court ruling concerning independent contractors.

App based independent contractors are being reclassified as employees under the ruling.

Is this legislstive reclassification of independent contractors to employees limited to ride share? No, it also hits trucking, construction, newspapers, and janitorial services companies.

In 2018 an alternative worker classification, marketplace contractor, was proposed by AB 2765 (2018 |CA). 

Los…

Lege TREND. Anatomy of a Gas Tax + Its Alternative in a Red State with Trucking Association Support

Ohio Governor proposes raising the gas tax by 18 cents from the current 28 cents.

Supporters of the gas tax increase:

  • Ohio Trucking Association

The alternative: pay as you drive.

Opponents to Pay as You Drive say:

  • Pay as your Drive has high administrative costs
  • isn’t well vetted
  • hard to implement

Government Technology | Ohio Looks to Oregon’s Mileage Tax Plan to Fund Transportation

Lege TREND. Port Recommendations. Texas Interim Reports. 2019 Legislature. Speed Read.

House Committee on Transportation makes the following recommendations on ports:

  • Funding Ship Channel Improvement Revolving Fund should be funded
  • Underground Facility Notification. Railroad Commission, the General Land Office and the Port Authority Advisory Committee should work with stakeholders and the appropriate federal agencies to make a recommendation to the legislature regarding the inclusion of underwater infrastructure in the Texas Underground Facility Notification
  • Funding for roads…

Lege TREND. Transportation Interim Charge Recommendations. 2019 Texas Legislature. Speed Read.

House Committee on Transportation recommends:

  • TXDOT cooperation with local governments durin emergencies for evacuation routes, signage, and emergency management information systems
  • comprehensive development agreements for projects which are not included in TxDOT’s Uniform Transportation Program should be OK if local governing bodies approve them
  • If local governmental bodies have approved toll roads they should be able to have toll roads
  • Increase to 6, from 3, the number of design-build…

3 Proactive Transportation Planning Needs of Texas Rural Highways.

  • Producers guide transportation needs by forecasting the changing truck travel to match advances in energy development 
  • Creative engeinnering. 
    • converting an existing two-way frontage road to one-way traffic
    • temporary use of bypass lanes until an overpass is built
  • Data TxDOT and TTI experts study accident data to reduce accidents

Trib Talks | William R. Stockton | Texas A&M Transportation Institute | Rural Texas highways give us a reliable path to the pump

Lege Trend. Trucking Industry Backs Oil and Gas Opposition to a Ballot Proposition.

A Colorado ballot propsition to curb drilling near neighborhoods see trucking industry support oil and gas in opposition.

The opposition arguments from trucking industry:

  • it will harm the economy, and my small trucking business
  • it will harm local tax revenues when oil and gas revenues decline
  • it will harm education fudning

 

Glennwood Springs Post Independent | Counterpoint: Opposed to Proposition 112

TX Attorney General Opinion Request. Counties and County Truck Weight Enforcement

Requestor: Liberty County Attorney

Questions for the Texas Attorney General to answer: 

  • Can County law enforcement enforce weight restrictions or do they need DPS certification?
  • Can DPS revoke a law enforcement’s authority to enforce weight restrictions that were granted by a county commissioners court?
  • Does a county commissioner court’s grant of authority equal to authority under Texas Transportation Code§ 621.402(e)?

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