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Missouri voters go to the polls Aug. 5 to decide if they want to add three-quarters of a cent to the state’s 4.225-cent sales tax to pay for transportation projects.

Here is a state-by-state list of competitors at the 2014 National Truck Driving Championships in Pittsburgh:

In what was likely her final appearance before Congress as head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Anne Ferro said she opposes efforts to suspend the restart provision of the hours-of-service rules.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will be 15 years old in January — not long in the life of a government agency. That may explain in part why the five-year tenure of Administrator Anne Ferro, marked by a flurry of rulemaking, looms large in the agency’s and trucking history.

Anne Ferro, who oversaw a period of voluminous rulemaking for the trucking industry, has announced her resignation as head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

House GOP leaders scheduled a floor vote July 31 on their original $11 billion plan to shore up a cash-strapped federal highway account through May, in order to prevent the Department of Transportation from having to delay payouts to states Aug. 1.

The U.S. House has stripped a provision from the highway bill that sought to eliminate the tax disparity between diesel and liquefied natural gas.

A $10.8 billion bill to boost the Highway Trust Fund through May passed the House and Senate on July 31, shortly before lawmakers left Washington for a five-week recess.