What Is a Reasonable Relocation Package? Moving across the country or even just across town can be one of the most stressful, tiring, and expensive life events that you’ll ever go through. Whether you’re doing this by yourself or with your family, you can lessen the impact on yourself and your [...]
Today’s technological advances have made shipping for consumers so easy and efficient, now waiting for our online orders to be delivered has made us love the mailman that much more. What in past took took over a week, is now being delivered in two days - and even the same day. [...]
On October 22, the House’s Transportation and Infrastructure Committee pushed H.R. 3763 a six-year highway bill forward to the full House that would require the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to rework the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program, including a removal of carrier rankings. The Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act [...]
Reaching the areas where jobs are most plentiful has become a problem for many low-income Americans, who are now living in suburban areas. Many of these families have migrated to the suburbs because housing costs there are now lower than they are in cities, but are finding that the jobs they [...]
Utah’s recent move to raise gasoline taxes to fund transportation could be a model for other states, especially since it was a bipartisan effort in a Republican dominated legislature, as Eric Jay Toll writes for Phoenix Business Journal. Those supporting the bill found that in Utah, a conservative state, the arguments [...]
The U.S. House Committee on Highways and Transit is considering a bill that would permit border states to designate certain funds for infrastructure projects, according to Congress.gov. The bill, H.R. 3181, was introduced in the House late last month by Congressman Will Hurd (R-TX), Congressman Michael T. McCaul (R-TX), and Congressman [...]
U.S. Senator Edward Markey (D-Massachusetts) introduced Bill S.1806 on July 21 for greater auto safety standards. Titled the SPY Car Act of 2015, it would “require used car dealers to repair defects in the vehicles they sell, eliminate caps on fines for automakers and impose criminal penalties on auto executives who [...]
Reps. Ryan (R-Wi) and Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) introduced a bill on July 13 that would extend federal transport spending for highway and transit programs through the end of this year, as DC Velocity writes. The legislation, “H.R. 3038 - Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2015, Part II,” passed 312-119 by [...]
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake have called for the Confederate flag to be eliminated from Maryland license plates and state-issued property, as Kelly-Ann Brown writes for the Howard University News Service in an article that appeared in Frost Illustrated. Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Texas [...]
