Bill removes tax on new heavy trucks and trailers.
S. 4657 — Modern, Clean, and Safe Trucks Act of 2026 · Filed by Todd Young (R-IN) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jun 2, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill repeals a federal excise tax on new heavy trucks, tractors, and trailers. This tax has existed since 1917. It currently adds $7,000 to $50,000 to vehicle prices. Lower prices would help fleet owners buy newer trucks. These trucks have better environmental and safety features.
Who it affects
Fleet owners and truck manufacturers would pay less for new vehicles. Highway maintenance would lose a dedicated funding source. Citizens would bear the cost through higher taxes or reduced roads.
One thing to notice
The bill removes Highway Trust Fund money but does not say how highways would be paid for instead. The bill does not require fleet owners to buy new trucks or retire old ones.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- Jun 2, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Jun 2, 2026 — Referred to Senate Committee on Finance · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
6 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 6 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $2,917,908 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 20 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 82% of bills with any report.
Todd Young, who sponsored the bill, received $695,220 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- National Automobile Dealers Association — $1,191,000 in 1 report
- American Trucking Associations — $720,000 in 1 report
- Cummins Inc — $521,908 in 1 report
- Volvo Group North America LLC — $430,000 in 1 report
- National Truck Equipment Association — $40,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- excise tax — A tax added to the price of specific products like trucks.
- heavy trucks — Large commercial trucks used to haul cargo and goods.
- fleet owners — Companies or people who own multiple trucks for business.
- Highway Trust Fund — Money set aside by the federal government to build and fix roads.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (5,640 characters) on Aug 19, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,206 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-17.
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