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Global plans for a first-ever carbon price on shipping were put on ice Friday, after President Donald Trump urged countries to vote “No” and denounced the proposal as a “Global Green New Scam Tax.” Delegates at the U.N.’s International Maritime…
A fresh Senate bill unveiled late this week moves English-only commercial driver’s license testing onto the legislative fast track, dovetailing with the administration’s renewed roadside enforcement and putting the industry on the brink of a de facto federal language mandate.…
Washington is closing the gap between policy and practice on truckers’ English requirements. In the past 72 hours, lawmakers in both chambers filed fresh bills to make English-only CDL testing federal law, while the U.S. Department of Transportation’s funding squeeze…
In a late-week escalation ahead of a high-stakes U.N. shipping meeting, President Donald Trump publicly urged countries to “vote NO” on a global carbon price for oceangoing vessels, denouncing it as a “Global Green New Scam Tax.” His call came…
U.S. regulators on October 17 removed five electronic logging devices from the federal registry, triggering a 60‑day window for motor carriers to switch systems or fall back to paper logs. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) said the affected…
Two parallel moves in Washington are steering the industry toward a de facto federal language mandate: a fresh Senate bill that would make commercial driver testing English-only and expanding federal leverage over noncompliant states, and an ongoing funding fight with…
Federal trucking regulators removed five electronic logging devices from the government’s approved list on October 17, giving carriers a 60‑day window to swap them out and warning that drivers still using the devices after December 16 will be treated as…
Efforts to require English proficiency across the U.S. trucking workforce are converging on Capitol Hill and inside the U.S. Department of Transportation, setting the stage for a de facto national mandate that could arrive faster than the industry expected. A…
Global plans to put a price on oceangoing ship emissions hit the brakes on Friday, October 17, as the U.N.’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) adjourned its extraordinary session for a full year. The move followed a late-week campaign by the…
Two tracks in Washington — overlapping bills in Congress and stepped-up executive enforcement — are now moving in the same direction: turning English proficiency for commercial drivers from a long-debated rule into a day‑to‑day operational mandate. The policy momentum described…
