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Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is poised, perhaps as early as this week, to send lawmakers a plan to apply the state’s 6% sales tax to diesel and gasoline purchases.

Provisions that would have allowed states to permit larger, heavier trucks on interstate highways were voted down last week, just days after the highway reauthorization bill containing the measures was introduced in the House of Representatives.

January U.S. manufacturing activity rose to the highest level since June, the Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday.

Consumer confidence fell this month, the New York-based Conference Board said Tuesday.

Arkansas truckers will try again next year to persuade the legislature there to pass a bill to raise the state’s 22.8-cent diesel tax by 5 cents to pay for improved roads and bridges.

The U.S. Department of Transportation will take applications from states for $500 million in surface transportation projects under a fourth round of its competitive Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery program.

Isn’t it always this way? The good news is, there’s plenty of freight for the trucking industry to haul, and strong signs that growth will continue.

Consumer confidence rose in January to the highest level in almost a year, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.