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Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood is scheduled to deliver $20 million in federal infrastructure stimulus funding Wednesday to the New England states of Maine and New Hampshire.

Midterm elections are right around the corner, and a number of issues are at the forefront of voters’ minds — not the least of which is the economy. Everyone wants to know what will be done about job creation and economic growth.

American Trucking Associations has asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to refuse to allow California to chart its own path on requirements governing auxiliary power units on trucks.

A conference in Washington this week will reflect on the last 10 years of clean diesel technology and its effect on air quality, its organizers said.

Manufacturing activity in the New York region expanded in October at the highest rate in four months, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Friday.

Greatwide Logistics Services said Oct. 7 it has substantially increased the operations capacity and capabilities of its transportation operations center by implementing new software programs.

These Letters to the Editor appear in the Oct. 18 print edition of Transport Topics.

President Obama last week pushed Congress to move forward with a $50 billion spending package for transportation infrastructure, his second such plea in five weeks.

The U.S. trade deficit widened by 8.8% in August, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

The price of goods imported to the United States fell 0.3% in September on lower oil prices, the Labor Department said Wednesday.