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There’s a new trucking lobbyist on the block, and his name is Joe Hart.

TT File PhotoThe South Carolina Department of Transportation is considering putting tolls on its Interstates to make up for $9.4 billion shortfall in highway maintenance funding.

Maine Gov. Angus King is less than enthused by an alternative advanced by three Republican senators to the 5 cent gasoline tax increase he supports.

An Oklahoma state senator wants to finance railroad growth by taxing truckers at the gas pump.

Federal trucking regulators will hold a conference this spring on new eye-based technology to measure driver alertness.

Tax breaks provided railroads for a quarter of a century in exchange for improvements to their lines should be reduced, the South Dakota House decided Tuesday.

Freightliner Corp. and its parent company, Daimler-Benz AG, claim that in 1991 the Environmental Protection Agency explicitly condoned the same electronic emissions controls that the agency later called “defeat devices,” forcing U.S. diesel engine makers into a punishing settlement for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act.

The battle over which federal agency gets jurisdiction over truck safety took a new twist last week with the announcement of a second set of congressional hearings on the issue.

The railroad industry won’t take action to change the federal size and weight limits on trucks, as long as trucking doesn’t move to increase the allowable maximums, Association of American Railroads President Edward Hamberger said.

FedEx is absolutely, positively in the freight business.