08/20/2021
Trucking industry organizations mostly praised the U.S. Senate's passage this month of a massive infrastructure bill with a $1 trillion price tag, more than half of which is new money.
The bill is loaded with provisions aimed at a number of trucking's leading concerns. In the bill's more than 2,700 pages is:
$110 billion, for roads and bridges
$73 billion for the electric grid and power infrastructure
$66 billion for passenger and freight rail
$65 billion for broadband
$55 billion for water systems
$50 billion for Western water storage
$39 billion for public transit
$25 billion for airports
$21 billion for environmental remediation
$17 billion for ports and waterways
$15 billion for electric vehicles
$11 billion for road safety
It now heads to the U.S. House, which is on a break until late next month, where it faces an uncertain future.
Industry organizations are mostly supportive of the bill that now goes to the House.
