Partisan bickering vs. highway bill – which one wins?

LLN (3/19/21) – Going back more than six decades, infrastructure – particularly the highway part – has been a bipartisan issues. Both parties acknowledged the need and the cost and worked together. Will that happen again with the highway bill now being cooked up in Congress? Also, for several weeks, the OOIDA Foundation has been producing a series of free, online classes that explain the various steps in getting your own authority. We’ll tell you about the newest offering in that series. Attorneys for truckers see a lot of the same problems over and over. And in many cases, a simply step on the part of the trucker could eliminate the problems involved. And Jon Osburn is without his favorite truck show. But he is in Kentucky, talking with truckers about weird weather, fuel prices, freight rates and a few issues in our nation’s capital that deserve truckers’ attention.

0:00 – Newscast.

10:15 – New authority class; simple solution to inspection problems.

25:09 – Fuel, rates, weather and big issues.

39:31 – Highway bill: Bipartisan or not?