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The Virginia General Assembly passed a sweeping transportation plan that would cut the state’s retail taxes on diesel and gasoline and replace them with a wholesale tax on fuel distributors, raise the state’s sales tax to help fund transportation projects and curtail plans to toll Interstate 95.

A Minnesota proposal to impose a new 5.5% tax on a wide range of services that include trucking would add a large cost to the state’s trucking industry, the Minnesota Trucking Association said.

Missouri lawmakers are debating whether to add a penny to the state sales tax and dedicate the new revenue to transportation.

Wisconsin voters will have the chance next year to approve an amendment to their state constitution that would prevent governors and legislators from diverting money in the state’s transportation fund to any other purpose.

Truckers from around the country are opposing a local Georgia ordinance that limits truck parking on city parking lots, the (Macon, Ga.) Telegraph reported.

The White House last week provided some details of the infrastructure plan President Obama mentioned in his State of the Union address, calling for an immediate $50 billion in infrastructure spending, with $40 billion going to repairing roads, bridges and other facilities.

The Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill Friday afternoon that would eliminate the state’s retail taxes on diesel and gasoline and replace them with a wholesale tax for fuel distributors and an increased sales tax, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said it authorized Mexican carrier Grupo Behr de Baja California as the 10th participant in a longhaul cross-border pilot program.

The consumer price index was unchanged in February, the Labor Department said Thursday.