Business Competitiveness

• Support maintaining the current minimum liability insurance limits.

• Support national uniformity in licensing, marking, and permitting for commercial trucks.

• Support eliminating laws and regulations that put the trucking industry at a competitive disadvantage.

 

Education

• Support reasonable entry-level driver training requirements.

• Support state initiatives for truck driver and technician training.

• Support state grants for students entering truck driver and technician training.

• Support tax incentives to help companies train entry level and returning truck drivers and technicians.

 

Energy

• Support energy policies that encourage national uniformity in diesel formulation.

• Support the development and use of environmentally and economically viable fuel sources.

 

Environment

• Support tax incentives to encourage the use of optional emission-reduction technologies.

• Support national emission standards that are based on scientific evidence.

• Support streamlined, balanced and uniform environmental reviews of proposed transportation-related projects.

 

Highway Safety

• Support permanently removing the 30-minute rest break requirement from the hours-of-service rules.

• Support reforming CSA to address such items as crash accountability, non-public scores, and warnings.

• Support safety fitness determinations based on field audits.

• Support allowing hair to satisfy US DOT testing requirements.

• Support sleep disorder screening protocols developed only through a public rulemaking.

• Support standardizing driver exemptions for various medical conditions (e.g., vision, diabetes, and limbs).

• Support flexible sleeper berth rules to enhance safety.

• Support increasing the number of parking spaces available for commercial trucks.

• Support continued development of efficient and safe driver-assist technology.

• Oppose mandated use of commercial vehicle speed limiters.

• Oppose a Beyond Compliance Program as part of CSA.

 

Labor

• Support the use of clear, industry specific definitions of employees and independent contractors.

• Support the preservation of the existing overtime exemption for interstate drivers under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

• Oppose efforts to mandate specific methods of pay to drivers.

• Support the pre-emption of state labor and employment laws by federal laws and regulations to allow uniformity and competitive balance across the nation.

• Support balanced labor and employment rules and policies that support the rights of employers and employees.

• Oppose expansion of joint employer determinations.

• Support the use of only two worker status classifications.

• Support creation of a graduated commercial driver’s license for drivers younger than 21 years old in interstate commerce.

 

Taxes

• Support eliminating the federal highway excise tax on new truck purchases.

• Support tax reform that is equitable between pass-through entities and corporations.

• Support a federal tax credit for alternative fuel infrastructure.

• Support a federal tax credit for alternative fuel commercial vehicles.

• Support tax policies that allow for long-term business planning.

 

Transportation Funding

• Support increasing funding to maintain and expand the nation’s roads and bridges.

• Support increasing the federal fuel tax, and its indexing within reasonable limits, as the primary funding source for the highway program.

• Oppose alternative transportation funding mechanisms like tolls on existing general purpose lanes, mileage-based user fees, and roadway and bridge privatization.

• Support the dedication of any highway user revenues to the Federal Highway Trust Fund, without diversion to other non-road purposes.

 

Vehicle Size and Weight

• Support maintaining the maximum 53 foot trailer length.

• Support gross vehicle weight increases to offset the added weight of emissions reduction and alternative fuel technology.

• Support removing the artificial gross vehicle weight cap (80,000 lbs.) to a gross axle weight regulation that maximizes the bridge formula and preserves infrastructure.