In Brief: ATA urges Congress to consider fuel taxes over tolling

摘要

Increasing tolls to fund infrastructure projects andmaintenance is “inefficient, unsafe and damaging to thetrucking industry,” a coalition of trucking groups told federallegislators Wednesday.Representatives of the American Trucking Associationsurged the House Transportation and InfrastructureCommittee to look instead to higher fuel taxes as thebest way to provide a steady source of funding for thefederal Highway Trust Fund, which it said is facing“impending bankruptcy.”