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When tolling starts sometime this spring on the State Route 520 Bridge across Lake Washington west from Seattle, trucks could pay from $2.40 to $14.50 each way to cross.

A task force formed to address Idaho’s transportation funding shortfall has disbanded after 18 months of work without making any specific road-revenue-raising recommendations.

Consumer confidence rose in November, the New York-based Conference Board said Tuesday.

Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and George Voinovich (R-Ohio) introduced a bill that would reauthorize a voluntary national and state-level grant and loan program to reduce diesel emissions.

I was reading your Nov. 1 issue and came across the article about the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, electric onboard recorders and hours of service. I read the article and felt I should put in my 2 cents’ worth on this issue.

When the next freight transportation capacity shortage makes itself known, whether it’s in the second half of next year or at the start of 2012, no one should say they weren’t warned well in advance.

Several bills introduced in Congress that would affect the trucking industry remain in limbo as the current “lame-duck” Congress races to finish its business by year-end, experts said.

Trucking industry officials said they question whether the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will be able to complete its work on a new hours-of-service rule in time to comply with a court order.