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TT File PhotoThe South Carolina Department of Transportation is considering putting tolls on its Interstates to make up for $9.4 billion shortfall in highway maintenance funding.

An Oklahoma state senator wants to finance railroad growth by taxing truckers at the gas pump.

Maine Gov. Angus King is less than enthused by an alternative advanced by three Republican senators to the 5 cent gasoline tax increase he supports.

Federal trucking regulators will hold a conference this spring on new eye-based technology to measure driver alertness.

Tax breaks provided railroads for a quarter of a century in exchange for improvements to their lines should be reduced, the South Dakota House decided Tuesday.

Transport Topics Editor Howard S. Abramson and national affairs correspondent David Barnes recently interviewed Edward Hamberger, president of the Association of American Railroads.

The ball is now in American Trucking Associations’ court. That’s the word from the 13 state trucking association executives that met in Dallas Jan. 30.

Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee faces an uphill struggle to pass his interstate highway improvement plan in the House without some help to speed up improvements on other roads.

Ohio transportation officials will spend $4.3 billion on road construction and repair over the next two years under a proposed budget Gov. Bob Taft released Tuesday.

Skyway Freight Systems has created two new business units, Charles Lounsberry, Skyway’s chief executive officer, announced.