On February 10, the state legislators in Connecticut will be having a scheduled vote on a proposal to toll trucks. The plan states that tolls will be collected around the highways using 12 electronic gantries. The current form of the proposal talks about just heavy-duty trucks being tolled with an…
Governor Ned Lamont is asking state lawmakers to pass a ‘trucks only’ toll plan as soon as they can and the Connecticut trucking industry is not happy about it. With 62% of the freight in Connecticut traveling within the state these ‘truck only’ tolls will harm the economy. One trucking…
The Governor of Connecticut has announced that seven of the state-operated rest stops in Connecticut will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Senate Bill 713, to open these rest stops all day every day, has been well received by the trucking community. Whether traveling at night…