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Highway bill’s hot topics: Expanding truck parking, probing lease-purchases, limiting unpaid detention
Though last week I wrote off concerns that the House’s proposal for the next long-term highway bill likely would clear Congress as-is, the bill and the trucking policy riders included within it shouldn’t be entirely discounted.
Provisions within early highway bill drafts often do make such legislation’s final cut. While the measure to block recently finalized hours of service reforms is still a long-shot, other trucking policy provisions proposed in the bill could be enacted into law if and when Congress passes a successor to the current FAST Act...