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WASHINGTON — President-elect Trump’s pledge to spend billions of dollars on new road and bridge projects could dramatically reshape Minnesota’s transportation priorities, potentially bringing private investment to finance massive public works projects.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors has invited top-level Trump administration officials to address their group at their January meeting in Washington.

Fewer motor carriers in Canada are feeling confident about the trucking market over the next three months, according a survey released by the Ontario Trucking Association on Dec. 16.

President-elect Trump proposes to rebuild U.S. roads, bridges, ports and other public works projects with a $1 trillion infrastructure investment plan as the country faces a shortage of skilled laborers. 

Talk of foreign-trade zones is enough to make some folks’ eyes glaze over, but if your business involves moving stuff in and out of ports, FTZs can be a big deal.

If President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to tap private investors to build infrastructure projects over the next 10 years is adopted by Congress, new tolling facilities are likely to take off along busy freight corridors, tolling proponents and several transportation groups said in recent interviews with Transport Topics.

In written comments to federal regulators, several large trucking companies and trade organizations echoed concerns of owner-operators that a proposed rule for a heavy-truck speed limiter will not improve safety on U.S. highways, and may even cause more crashes due to speed differentials.

By the early 2020s, cars and trucks could well be swapping data with each other automatically while cruising the nation’s highways and streets, providing a broad platform to improve safety and save lives, if a proposed new federal rule on vehicle-to-vehicle connectivity is enacted.

The 2017 National Defense Authorization Act passed by Congress earlier this month contains a provision that will soon permit truck drivers to use their Transportation Worker Identification Credential as sole proof of identity when entering any of the nation’s 700 military installations.