Why OOIDA will fight the highway bill

Published: June 20, 2020, midnight

LLN (6/19/20) – The House Transportation Committee has advanced a bill that would pump nearly $500 billion dollars into the nation’s highways – but a section drastically increasing insurance requirement means OOIDA won’t support it. Also, we’ll go over some of the less-discussed trucking issues in that measure. And Jon Osburn is seeing more weird weather, but the weird economics of trucking are starting to calm down just a bit.

0:00 – Newscast.

9:43 – OOIDA opposition rooted in insurance requirement.

24:06 – Trucking starting to stabilize.

38:34 – Other trucking issues in the highway bill.