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UPS said it has completed testing of its “plastic truck,” a composite-bodied vehicle that’s lighter and uses 40% less fuel than its current package cars, and will soon add 150 of the new vehicles to its delivery fleet.

President Obama has nominated Polly Trottenberg to serve as the Department of Transportation’s undersecretary for policy, the White House announced.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has announced $30 million for the replacement or repair of rural roads as part of the agency’s most recent “TIGER” grants.

Congress was set last week to pass new transportation legislation authorizing highway spending through September 2014, after House and Senate negotiators agreed on a bill that included a mandate for electronic onboard recorders for trucks and a study of the 34-hour restart provision in driver hours-of-service regulations.

The U.S. economy grew at a 1.9% annual rate in the first quarter, the Commerce Department said Thursday, holding an earlier estimate.

A federal appeals court backed the Obama administration's campaign to limit greenhouse-gas emissions, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

A federal investigation into drug and alcohol safety records resulted in 287 commercial truck and bus drivers being removed from the roads, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said.

The portion of Interstate 95 running through Virginia would have one tolling location — near the North Carolina state line — under a plan Virginia is preparing for the federal government.