A bill dubbed last year by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association as the “poison pill” has reared its ugly head again.
Rep. Chuy Garcia, D-Ill., announced last week that he plans to reintroduce the Insurance Act, which would increase the minimum insurance requirement for motor carriers. While the text of the bill still has not been released, previous versions of the bill called for increases that would have been devastating to small-business truckers.
Garcia’s 2019 version of the bill called for the current minimum insurance of $750,000 to increase to nearly $4.925 million – and increase of more than 550%. Last year, Garcia tacked on an amendment to the highway bill that would have boosted the requirement to $2 million – an increase of 167%. In February, OOIDA Executive Vice President Lewie Pugh testified to a House committee that even the increase to $2 million could make a trucker currently paying $10,000 per year to have to start paying $20,000 each year
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A new player has entered the arena to help solve the truck parking crisis: the National League of Cities.
On April 7, the National League of Cities published a post on its website titled “Have Excess Parking? Consider Truck Parking Partnerships.” The organization of more than 2,000 city, town and village leaders across the nation has some ideas that could benefit both truckers and cities.
According to the National League of Cities, several cities across the country have a problem that the trucking industry may be envious of: unused, excess parking. The organization is asking cities to consider allowing truckers to park at these empty spots whenever possible.
April 19, 2021
By Pat Pape
This is the first of a two-part NACS Daily series on the truck driver shortage in the U.S.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. Since last August, merchandise deliveries to Square One Markets in Pennsylvania have been delayed at least 10 times, usually for about 24 hours. The reason: There was no driver available to make the delivery.
“Our distributor has never had that problem before,” said Lisa Dell’Alba, president and CEO of Square One Markets. “But Pennsylvania is having a terrible time finding workers construction, convenience store and truck drivers. It’s been difficult and caused a bit of disruption in our organization.”
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