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WASHINGTON — The disconnect between the government agencies that regulate freight and the companies that move it in ever-increasing volumes throughout the United States was a focus of a Transportation Research Board session on Jan. 9.

WASHINGTON — Performance management, long a staple of the private sector, is increasingly common in the world of transportation agencies. That reality, which was jump-started by MAP 21 becoming law in 2012, was applauded by officials from those agencies as well as other experts at a Transportation Research Board session on Jan. 8.

WASHINGTON — The South Coast Air Quality Management District expects to start a one-year test soon of electrified trucking near two of the nation’s largest ports, the leader of the agency’s division overseeing the program said Jan. 8.

It was a year of generally slow growth for freight carriers as well as shifting political winds as Americans elected business mogul and reality television personality Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States.

A year after it made big splashes by acquiring Norbert Dentressangle SA and Con-Way Inc., XPO Logistics continued to make news — not with acquisitions, but in other arenas. And when XPO acts, people listen. And read.

To help put the year in trucking into greater perspective, Transport Topics' Eugene Mulero brings back Capitol Agenda guests Kellie Mejdrich of CQ Roll Call and Stephanie Beasley of Bloomberg BNA. They discuss the decisions in Washington in 2016 that had the greatest effect on the industry.

Transport Topics Associate News Editor Jonathan S. Reiskin and Senior Features Writer Daniel P. Bearth discuss the top business news developments in the trucking world for 2016.