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The nomination of Scott Darling to lead the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration was easily advanced by the Senate Commerce Committee on March 3.

Legislation to increase highway funding in West Virginia by more than $290 million a year — primarily through increasing the state sales tax from 6% to 7% — is headed to the state’s House of Delegates, which has proved adverse to tax hikes.

Summaries of private industry meetings with Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration officials are among more than two dozen documents released by federal regulators related to a final Phase 2 heavy-duty truck greenhouse-gas emissions regulation.

According to a Department of Transportation study released March 3, the amount of freight moved by trucks in the United States will increase 44% by 2045 while its value will jump 84%.

New Hampshire’s 10-year, $3.8 billion highway improvement plan was approved by the House Public Works and Highways Committee on March 2.

As some in the trucking industry feared, Rhode Island’s plan to make only trucks pay tolls within its borders has another state thinking about doing the same.

The U.S. Department of Transportation is making available up to $72.5 million in fiscal 2016 for universities looking to expand their transportation research initiatives.

Transportation activity was mixed in the United States early in the year as weakness in the energy sector limited gains, the Federal Reserve reported.