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Byline: Jacqui Fatka Jake Feddes, owner of Montana-based Feddes Family Meats, gets 10-15 messages a week asking for his state-inspected small meat processing facility to ship across state lines. Although [...]

Byline: Jacqui Fatka Jake Feddes, owner of Montana-based Feddes Family Meats, gets 10-15 messages a week asking for his state-inspected small meat processing facility to ship across state lines. Although [...]

Byline: Jane Moorman The recent enforcement of a federal regulation regarding transporting animals across state lines for commerce has confused not-for-profit haulers including 4-H and FFA families. New Mexico State [...]

Many wineries now stand to get a nice boost to their business via remote wine sales: On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to support interstate wine shipments directly from [...]

Byline: Larry Riggs and Jim Emerson (Direct Newsline) Winemakers welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court decision Monday that found bans against direct sales by wineries to consumers in Michigan and New [...]

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has announced an interim final rule that will require states and state law enforcement personnel to place interstate motor carriers out of service [...]

Opposition mounts to younger-driver initiative To help alleviate a growing driver shortage, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has asked the public for comments on a proposed pilot program that [...]

Wine dot-coms merger to enable personalization More targeted e-mail is the intended fruit following October's blending of WineShopper.com and Wine.com and the marrying of their databases. Operating as Wine.com, the [...]

Some would argue the horse has already bolted, but the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) is locking the tariff gate anyway. Carriers and their employees will be subject to fines if [...]

Interstate waste transport measures circulated in Congress this year tend to rely on the use of differential fees. Capacity Assurance Plans (CAP) and outright bans to mitigate the impact of [...]

Interstate waste transport has become the thorniest waste disposal problem of the year as states try to resist the flow of solid waste across their borders. Previously a dilemma restricted [...]

TRUCK DECONTROL: PLACED 'ON HOLD' It is now no secret that 1986 will not go down in history as a banner year for enactment of new laws supporting shipper trucking [...]

IN A DECISION THAT CALLS INTO question similar taxes imposed in other states, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that North Carolina, through its now-repealed intangibles tax, violated constitutional protections […]

In Aug 1994 Congress eliminated state regulation of motor carriers - except household goods - and tariffs on interstate transportation. Now, the states will only regulate insurance and safety matters. The separate Senate and House bills signal the federal government's dissatisfaction with the ICC, which, with the exception of powers pertaining to loss and damage claims, is increasingly seen as irrelevant., On August 8, 1994, Congress passed legislation banning all state economic regulation of motor carriers (except for household goods). On August 11, 1994, the Senate passed separate legislation which would [...]

Congress has decisively enacted legislation banning state regulation of trucking, a development that will eliminate the artificially high rates truckers now pay. The law prohibits states from regulating entry, rates, routes and services, except household goods. The states will continue to regulate safety and insurance matters. Related bills would streamline the ICC and eliminate the filed rate doctrine., Congress did something last month that stunned the transportation community. It deregulated state economic control of trucking. It did so in record time taking about three months to develop and [...]

To the shipper community, a recent decision by a federal court in California has caused the undercharge problem to go from a bad dream to a nightmare. It is estimated [...]

According to respondents to TRANSPORTATION & DISTRIBUTION'S January 1992 Facts Finder survey, intrastate regulation makes manufacturers less competitive within their state than companies located outside the state. In this limited [...]

The nation's governors want autonomy in managing interstate transportation of solid wastes. At its annual winter meeting, a committee of the National Governors' Association (NGA) asked Congress to shield RCRA [...]