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Commercial drivers in Illinois are banned from using hand held cellphones while driving, as of this month, the Illinois Department of Transportation said.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) announced a proposal Tuesday to remove the state’s gasoline tax, which would make Virginia the first state in the country to eliminate that tax.

Shorepower Technologies announced that eight more truck stops across the country have added electric plug-in sites.

Mississippi River barge operators said the worst drought in 80 years may put at risk the emergency dredging and rock removal aimed at keeping the nation’s busiest waterway open at least through this month, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday.

YRC Freight said it has named Darren Hawkins senior vice president of sales and marketing, effective Jan. 14.

The American Transportation Research Institute is asking commercial drivers to weigh in on changes to the 34-hour restart provision of the federal hours-of-service rule, set to take effect in July.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) has approved a law that prevents trucking companies from being held responsible for accidents, negligence or other damage that is a shipper’s fault.

A group of shippers, brokers and small motor carriers told a federal court that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s new carrier safety ratings are “confusing, ever-changing, mercurial and capricious in their effects on carriers.”