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Transport Topics government and regulatory coverage keeps managers of a highly-regulated industry aware of the policy decisions that can shape their businesses. Covering both the legislative and regulatory aspects of policy-making, at both the state and national levels, the news in this category includes looks at infrastructure, hours of service, emissions rules, funding measures, leadership appointments, and more. Readers can follow what’s happening in Congress, at the Department of Transportation and the Federal Motor Carrier Administration, and in state and local governments.

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California Starts Accepting Applications for Driverless Car Permits

California began accepting applications April 2 for permits to deploy self-driving cars on public roads without a human backup driver at the wheel.

April 3, 2018
GovernmentBusinessSafety

Wilcox Seeks ELD Exemption for DOE-Related Hauls

A trucking company that hauls loads for a federal laboratory has requested an exemption from the electronic logging device rule, according to a document scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on April 4.

April 3, 2018
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Dow Drops More Than 400 Points After Being Down 700 as Trade-War Fears Intensify

Stock prices opened the second quarter with another sharp decline April 2 as investors grew increasingly worried about the rising U.S. trade dispute with China and a flurry of problems hammering the nation’s marquee technology firms.

April 3, 2018
GovernmentBusiness

Trump Pushing for Preliminary NAFTA Deal by Mid-April, Sources Say

The Trump administration is pushing for a preliminary NAFTA deal to announce at a summit in Peru next week, and will host cabinet ministers in Washington to try to achieve a breakthrough, according to three people familiar with the talks.

April 3, 2018
GovernmentBusiness

EPA Moves to Cut Obama-Era Fuel-Efficiency Standards

The Trump administration announced that fuel-efficiency regulations for cars and light trucks are too stringent and must be revised, formally beginning a process sought by the U.S. auto industry to rollback anti-pollution targets.

April 2, 2018
GovernmentTechnologyEquipment

States Explore Drone Technologies to Improve Data, Save Time

Drone programs can expand traffic management and bridge inspection opportunities for states, but they can also create savings to benefit other projects, according to one transportation official whose agency has been using the devices for nearly a year.

April 2, 2018
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Uber Crash Sparks Talk of Tighter Rules for Self-Driving Vehicles

U.S. lawmakers have applied a light touch in regulating robot cars. At the national level, the Trump administration has proclaimed that driverless-car guidelines should be “entirely voluntary” for automakers, and bills pending in Congress would clear the way to putting tens of thousands of autonomous cars on the road — orders of magnitude more than the few hundred in the country today — before federal safety regulations are set.

April 2, 2018
GovernmentBusinessLogistics

Trump Warns He'll Dump NAFTA if Mexico Doesn't Stop Drug Flows

President Donald Trump threatened to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement if Mexico doesn’t stop people and drugs from flowing into the United States from Central America.

April 2, 2018
GovernmentBusiness

Trump’s Tariffs Hurting American Factories as Prices Skyrocket

Here’s one way to assess President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imported steel and aluminum: America’s factories already aren’t feeling so great.

April 2, 2018
GovernmentBusiness

New Jersey Busts $1 Million Cargo Theft Ring

An 11-man, $1 million cargo theft ring was broken up by the New Jersey State Police last month in “Operation Botany Strike.”

April 2, 2018