Here's a link to my full story at spokesman.com on today's meeting of Gov. Butch Otter's transportation funding task force, which voted unanimously to accept a new state-commissioned cost-allocation study showing car owners are overpaying for Idaho roads while heavy trucks underpay, but expressed strong reservations about raising fees for trucks. Here's Otter's reaction to today's task force action:

“The cost allocation study is a helpful starting point, not an end. We have to put its findings in context. The study will help inform policy makers as we determine the need and how to address it. But we also must answer such policy questions as whether to include GARVEE funding, whether to include federal funding or whether to look at state funding alone in determining a path forward under the study.”

And here's the reaction of Otter's Democratic challenger, Keith Allred, who's called for cutting Idaho's gas tax by 3 cents a gallon and raising truck fees to make up the difference: "Idaho families can't afford to subsidize the heavy trucking industry in times like these. We need a governor who works for Idaho families, not his political contributors."