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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced Dec. 13 that it will maintain the current controlled substances random testing rate at 25% for motor carriers during 2017.

Donald Trump has chosen Rick Perry to be the secretary of energy, putting the onetime presidential candidate and former oil-state governor atop the agency that helps chart the nation’s energy future, according to four people familiar with the president-elect’s selection process.

In the old days, getting a road built often meant a powerful legislator making a call, pressuring agency employees and then appearing at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the shiny new road.

The 2017 National Defense Authorization Act passed by Congress on Dec. 8 contains a provision that will permit truck drivers to soon use their Transportation Worker Identification Credential as sole proof of identity when entering any of the nation’s 700 military installations.

President-elect Donald Trump’s $1 trillion campaign proposal to finance roads and bridges through tax credits should steer clear of provisions that add to the deficit, the leader of the U.S. Senate told reporters in Washington on Dec. 12.

The highest-ranking Wisconsin Senate Democrat says she is skeptical of using toll roads as the solution to the state’s road-funding woes.

The Port of Virginia had its second-busiest month in its history with double-digit year-over-year gains in containerized cargo traffic for November.