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JOURNAL NEWS INBRIEF 2/13 • The Government Accountability Office • A Pike Research report says that almost tion and consider if a government entity – the investigative arm of Congress 1 million natural gas-powered trucks banning a licensed carrier from a port – reported that new regulations are and buses – about 930,000, the study is a suspension of the carrier's federal needed to mitigate weaknesses in safe- forecasts – will be sold worldwide registration. guards meant to keep impaired com- between 2012 and 2019. • As part of a yearend fiscal package – the mercial drivers off the road. GAO stated its previous work found vulnerabilities • The New York Thruway Authority bill made to avert the so-called "fis- in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety abandoned plans to raise truck tolls by cal cliff" – Congress voted to reinstate Administration's oversight of impaired 45 percent. Thruway Authority Executive the biodiesel tax incentive that had CDL holders, such as inadequate medical Director Thomas Madison presented a expired Dec. 31, 2011, for both 2012 and certifications for commercial drivers. new plan Dec. 17 that eliminated the 2013. hike, and the authority board approved • The Energy Information Administration's the new proposal later that day. that the national average diesel price • ATA's advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index Short-Term Energy Outlook forecasts • The American Trucking Associations' increased 2.8 percent in December to in 2013 will be 10 cents lower than lawsuit against the Port of Los Angeles 121.6 (2000 = 100) after surging 3.9 2012's $3.97. It also predicts that the and its 2008 mandate that port carri- percent in November. ATA said the 2014 average will be 9 cents less than ers use only company drivers and not back-to-back increases were by far the the 2013 average. The Outlook projects independent contractors is heading to best gains of 2012, but when compared that consumption will rise slowly during the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court did to December 2011, the index was off 2.3 the next two years to an average of 18.8 not provide a date but said it will hear percent, the worst year-over-year result million barrels per day in 2014. arguments pertaining to FAA exemp- since November 2009. Text INFO to 205-289-3554 or visit www.ccjdigital.com/info 10 COMMERCIAL CARRIER JOURNAL Untitled-28 1 CCJ_0213_JOURNAL.indd 10 | FEBRUARY 2013 1/23/13 9:18 AM 1/23/13 10:56 AM