NMFTA tracks trucking payments frozen in Congress since McCarthy ousted

The transfer final week by Republican congressmen to take away Rep Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as speaker of the home has thrown into query the destiny of a number of payments affecting the trucking sector, and will even threaten efforts in Congress to succeed in a bipartisan spending settlement earlier than the present deal expires on November 17, in line with the Nationwide Motor Freight Site visitors Affiliation (NMFTA).

The unprecedented parliamentary process is important as a result of with out an elected speaker, all proceedings within the Home are stalled, the NMFTA mentioned in an electronic mail masking legislative updates in regards to the trucking sector. The NMFTA is a nonprofit membership group headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, that represents the pursuits of less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers.

Particular payments that the group is monitoring embrace:
 • Truck Parking Security Enchancment Act, which might set up $755 million in grant funding to extend the variety of secure truck parking areas.
 • Veteran Enchancment Industrial Driver License Act, which cuts pink tape for army veterans making an attempt to leverage their GI invoice advantages to obtain coaching for a CDL.
 • The Freedom to Spend money on Tomorrow’s Workforce Act, that will increase flexibility for funds invested in a better training financial savings plan, like a 529, to make use of them for profession and technical teaching programs, together with CDL coaching.
 • LICENSE Act, that may modernize the principles for acquiring a CDL by making everlasting key waivers adopted within the pandemic period to streamline the method.
 • Trendy, Clear, and Secure Vehicles Act, which might repeal the 12% federal excise tax, or FET, on heavy vans and trailers, making such vans extra inexpensive and passing the financial savings alongside the availability chain to customers.

In the meantime, whereas the Home navigates these “traditionally uncharted waters,” the Senate is making an attempt to assemble packages of a number of spending payments, also called “minibus” payments, the group mentioned. “NMFTA will work with members of each events to make sure that our priorities are mirrored in any bundle that features transportation insurance policies,” NMFTA mentioned within the publication.