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WEST POINT, Ga. — Just past the Alabama border, in a bit of rural Georgia filled with manufacturing plants and distribution warehouses, there's an 18-mile stretch of Interstate 85 where new technologies are being tested for what could be a green highway of the future.

Responding to concerns that money from a proposed 2-cents-a-gallon gasoline tax increase would be used for the Albuquerque Rapid Transit project, city councilors on June 5 amended the proposal to bar that from happening.

A controversial bill on highway tolls was pulled from consideration on June 6, seconds before it would have been defeated on the House floor. It is likely to be dead for the year.

The need to replenish employees in the trucking industry is a constant with more than 16,000 trucking companies located in North Carolina, which is why Surry Community College is offering a new Trucking Operations Management certificate in fall 2017.

As many as 1,200 new jobs could come to Tacoma when UPS Inc. moves into a large warehouse on the Tacoma Tideflats.

Robots have made headlines recently for what they can do — make pizzas, climb Jimmy Fallon's leg, say a prayer for you — and for what people fear they will do: take our jobs.

Less than a decade ago, Portland, Ore.-based Freightliner appeared to have one foot out the door. The storied maker of big rigs changed its name to Daimler Trucks North America, then announced it would move hundreds of headquarters jobs to North Carolina.

Shipowner and operator Rickmers Maritime shut down its business and sold off its entire fleet after a last-ditch debt restructuring deal was rejected by its major creditors.

USA Truck Inc. in Van Buren, Ark., has hired veteran trucking pricing professional Rick Hainlen as vice president of revenue operations.