trucking industry

The bipartisan infrastructure bill included a big favor to the trucking industry.
A bipartisan provision to lower the commercial driving age to 18 will likely be in the infrastructure bill. Advocates are calling it an industry handout.
Add-on provision could let truckers work more than 80 hours a week.
Autonomous vehicles are poised to disrupt the unhealthy trucking business. Mining could be next.
The industry has given lawmakers language that will set 73-hour maximum work weeks for drivers.