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Four groups opposing the federal government’s program that allows some Mexican trucking companies to travel throughout the United States sharply criticized the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, saying the agency is allowing unsafe companies into the cross-border pilot program.

The Boston Marathon bombing showed American courage and spirit as exemplified by the marathon runners, spectators and the first responders, who, rather than running away from the bombing scene, ran directly into it to help the injured.

The North Carolina House voted unanimously to ban tolls on any existing interstate highway, which would end the state’s plan to toll Interstate 95.

The Minnesota Trucking Association criticized a legislative proposal to put a tax on warehousing services in the state, saying it would harm the state’s economy and kill jobs.

The Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing next week to consider the nomination of Anthony Foxx to become the next Transportation Secretary.

The consumer price index fell 0.4% in April, the biggest downturn in more than four years, the Labor Department said Thursday.

The Transportation Security Administration’s $23 million pilot test of Transportation Worker Identification Credential biometric card readers at 17 sites failed to prove that the technology actually works as intended, according to a new government report.

A Virginia judge has ruled unconstitutional the state’s plan to begin tolling in February on two existing tunnels between Norfolk and Portsmouth to pay for construction of a third.

Maine’s Legislature has passed a bill that would authorize the state’s Transportation Department to raise the speed limit to 75 mph on any highway — higher than the 65 mph maximum limit in most of the state — as long as the department concludes that it is a safe speed.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will propose a regulation later this year that would absolve truck drivers of their duty to file reports about truck and trailer inspections that do not find any equipment defects, a federal official said.