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Podcast: Will Congress pass CSA-crippling highway bill?

Overdrive Staff
Oct 30, 2015

Greg Cohen, president of the Highway Users Alliance, talks with Overdrive about the chances of Congress passing a bill to hide CSA cores and force FMCSA to fix the program. Cohen also talks tolling provisions within the bills, size and weight reform and whether highway monies will go to rail projects:

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