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About 100 miles east of UFO-capital Roswell, a dusty corner of New Mexico with more cattle than people is quietly buttressing the U.S.’s world #oil dominance. 

Trucking companies can anticipate new opportunities as Wells Enterprises invests $425 million to expand its New York plant. Wells, headquartered in Le Mars, Iowa, produces more than 200 million gallons of ice cream annually and distributes products in all 50 states.  

A new #fuel analysis by the Tax Foundation names #California, Illinois and Pennsylvania as the states with this year’s highest #diesel and #gas taxes, while Alaska, Mississippi and Hawaii have the lowest.   

U.S. Class 8 retail sales ended 11 consecutive months of year-over-year declines with a small uptick in July, according to data from Wards Intelligence.

Bestpass-Fleetworthy Solutions has acquired connected truck and weigh station network operator Drivewyze, the companies announced Aug. 7. 

From coast to coast, a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package is breathing life into long-awaited transportation projects.

Drivers whose trucks are sidelined along a busy highway with service issues have for decades been required to place warning triangles behind the trailer to alert oncoming traffic, sometimes requiring them to walk precipitously in the often narrow space between the trailer and the highway as traffic whizzes by. 

Clean Fuels Alliance America told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that it will sue over the agency’s delay in establishing 2026 biofuel volumes.

Truckers say they are victims of overly excessive fees. Towers claim they often go unpaid. 

The trucking industry experienced its first increase in tonnage this year in May, American Trucking Associations reported June 18.