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that allows them to effectively legislate. And so, no highway bill. Moreover, many of the Republican


members are passionate about cutting government and want to “devolve” most highway spending, meaning highways primarily would be funded at the state level. That would make it impossible to have a national highway system, Spear


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said. Half the states might be able to collect enough money to make it work, while the other half would not. He said a devolution vote taken in the Senate last year received support from 28 members, and that 35 senators would support that position now. “Roads and bridges are not


Republican or Democrat,” he said. “We


A WIN IN WASHINGTON Spear praised the American


Trucking Associations’ approach. Motor carrier executives called on Washington. The ATA’s Truck PAC donated campaign dollars to supportive candidates. The ATA worked with coali- tion partners so that the restart rule became not just a trucking story but also an economic one affecting many industries. “We told that story,” Spear said.


“We used every lever that we had. We spoke as one. We acted as one. We led, and we got a win. We got a win in Washington, D.C., at a time where no one else did.” Other American Trucking


Associations priorities include a dedicat- ed highway freight program to address the nation’s known bottlenecks, and CSA reform, which has bipartisan sup- port under a bill by Sen. John Thune, R-South Dakota, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. Both sides say carriers should not be held account- able for accidents they didn’t cause, Spear said. There’s also bipartisan sup- port for drug testing through hair sam- pling, which detects usage over a longer period of time than a urinalysis does. The ATA is suspending its advocacy of increasing truck weight limits, which Spear said hurts its other efforts, and instead will focus on increasing length limits so trucks could haul twin 33-foot trailers. That would reduce the number


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all drive on them, so why would anyone want to make that a political football?” Spear expressed confidence in


the national ATA’s political strategy because it was one of the few interests that actually achieved something last year. Against the Obama administra- tion’s wishes, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted in June 2014 as part of a Department of Transportation funding bill to suspend the unpopular hours of service restart rule until a study is completed. As a result of that bipartisan vote, the previous, more flex- ible restart rule now will be in effect.


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