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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said it will provide additional time for freight brokers to supply proof they’ve increased their minimum surety bonds to $75,000 from $10,000.

An index of the U.S. economy’s service sector rose in August, the Institute for Supply Management reported Sept. 5.

A federal study of how the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration could assign fault for truck crashes has been completed, but is being reviewed in-house by the agency, officials said.

Clark County, home to Las Vegas, will begin indexing state fuel taxes Jan. 1. For Clark County purchases, that could add 3 cents to 5 cents a gallon to the state’s 27.81-cent-a-gallon diesel tax in 2014 and as much as 9 cents to 15 cents by 2016.

Heavy trucks based in Delaware will soon have to be equipped with devices that can warn drivers or bystanders when the vehicles are backing up.

The U.S. trade deficit increased 13.3% in July from an almost four-year low, the Commerce Department reported.

The distance Americans drove annually fell between 2004 and 2012, a fact that should affect the way policymakers allocate money for transportation, the U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund said.

A bipartisan group of 51 House members sent a letter to Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, criticizing the latest changes to the 34-hour restart provision of the hours-of-service rule for truck drivers and asking for a timeline for the completion of a study of those changes, the lawmakers said Sept. 3.