For the second straight year, California lawmakers forwarded legislation to the governor that would require drivers to be in the cab during the testing of autonomous heavy trucks in the state.

A $17.9 billion contract to move military members and their families finally took effect this summer. So far, however, just 100 or so local moves have been completed by local moving companies.

A DEA proposal to downgrade marijuana from the most serious category of federal drug offenses to a lesser category has drawn more than 43,000 comments from groups and individuals.

The California Trucking Association is ending its yearslong legal battle against the state’s controversial AB 5 worker reclassification law.

With the IIJA set to expire in about two years, ATA said the opportunity to conduct the pilot program and report the results to Congress is “quickly fading.”

Dan Hilton, an alumnus of Capitol Hill and trade associations with extensive experience in government and advocacy, is the new executive director of ATA’s Moving & Storage Conference.

A committee of the Multistate Tax Commission failed to muster a vote in support of the tax-basis change after ATA made it clear that its 50-state federation would strongly oppose the idea.

Drivers whose trucks are sidelined along a busy highway with service issues have for decades been required to place warning triangles behind the trailer to alert oncoming traffic.

DOT drug testing of truck drivers using oral fluid collections was approved more than a year ago, but a lack of certified lab testing facilities  has stalled use of the method.

NTSB filed comments with DEA expressing concerns that moving marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act could end testing of the drug for truck drivers.