Trucking news and briefs for Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020:
UCR fees reduced for 2020 and beyond
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced in a Federal Register notice to be published Thursday, Feb. 13, the new Unified Carrier Registration fees for trucking companies, brokers and freight forwarders in 2020 will be reduced between $3 and $2,712, depending on the number of vehicles owned or operated by the companies.
Carriers with one or two trucks paid $69 in 2018 and $62 in 2019. These companies will pay $59 for their 2020 UCR fees. FMCSA says fees will remain at the same level for 2021 and subsequent years unless revised in the future.
The new fees for fleets of all sizes are as follows:
Rhode Island accepting public comments on proposed truck toll hike
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation is proposing an increase to its truck-only tolls at one of the 12 toll locations. RIDOT Director Peter Alviti said in a radio interview with WPRO Tuesday that the increase is due to RIDOT deciding not to build another gantry nearby.
“At particular locations, we’re increasing the toll amount, but we’re only doing that because we eliminated another location where we would have been collecting that toll anyway,” Alviti said in the interview. “We’re collecting the same toll amount but paying less for the number of gantries we’re putting up.”
