House Committee on T&I Democrats issue a framework for new long-term transportation bill
January 31, 2020
While momentum on a new long-term federal surface transportation authorization has been largely slow, especially during a Presidential election year that has not stopped Democrat members on the House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure whom this week issued a “list of infrastructure principles.”
With freight trough not quite reached, experts at SMC JumpStart expect gains in back half of 2020
January 31, 2020
While it was not a huge surprise that 2019 was unable to maintain the economic and freight volume momentum seen in 2018, the outlook for 2020 is shaping up to be closer to the former. That was the word from speakers at this week’s SMC3 JumpStart 2020 conference in Atlanta.
USMCA is signed into law, freight interests applaud the new deal
January 30, 2020
As was expected following both the United States House of Representatives and Senate each voting to move forward with the United States Mexico Canada (USMCA) agreement, as a replacement for its predecessor the North American Free Trade Agreement, USMCA was formally signed into law by President Trump yesterday.
