Pennsylvania plans to add travel lanes to 77 miles of Interstate 81, the second-most heavily traveled Interstate on the East Coast.

American Trucking Associations is challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority under the Clean Air Act of 1970, filing comments along with 25 other trade associations opposing a petition from environmental groups asking the agency to issue regulations controlling greenhouse gas emissions from mobile sources such as trucks.

The newly formed New Hampshire Freight Carriers Association has been certified as American Trucking Associations’ affiliate in that state.

A state circuit court wants to weigh the arguments in American Trucking Associations’ lawsuit against Oregon’s weight-distance tax, and has denied both parties’ motions for summary judgment.

Fewer truckers have been using Oklahoma’s turnpikes since a large toll hike at the beginning of the year, and still more may choose to avoid the tolls if a plan to turn part of U.S. 69 into a turnpike is adopted.

Although lawmakers stopped short of mandating the sale of biodiesel in North Dakota, they recently enacted tax breaks intended to make biodiesel more attractive to buyers. In Minnesota, meanwhile, the alternative fuel made from vegetable oils, such as soybean oil, or animal fats continues to be something of a political football.

American Trucking Associations fired another shot in the ongoing battle against the Oregon weight-distance tax, asking a state court for a summary judgment to immediately resolve the question whether the tax, the oldest of its kind, violates the U.S. Constitution.

American Trucking Associations added its support to a Pennsylvania trucking company’s attempt to protect an agreement with its interstate drivers regarding the choice of jurisdiction for filing worker compensation claims.

A discussion among trucking and steamship executives about who has responsibility for the condition of intermodal road equipment could lead to a business, rather than legislative, solution for Virginia ports by July, state officials say.

The ports of the United States became something of a battleground in 2000 as drayage truckers staged protests and strikes in an effort to win better working conditions and compensation.