Gov. Scott Walker (R) has made Wisconsin the 30th state to prohibit shipping contracts that require carriers to assume all liability for accidents regardless of whether they are at fault.

New York City recently announced that it is not enforcing its truck decal requirement and has asked the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to reconsider a ruling that the city cannot require truckers to have such identification.

Rep. John Mica (R) Fla.), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has set July 7 as his target date for unveiling his six-year reauthorization bill.

The ability of state and local governments to raise cash by  leasing or selling transportation assets to private investors would be slowed down, if not killed altogether, under a bill introduced by Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.).

Connecticut’s diesel tax will go up 3 cents on July 1, pushing the levy from 39.6 to 42.6 cents a gallon under a recent budget agreement between state legislators and Gov. Dan Malloy (D).

A bipartisan transportation reauthorization bill being prepared by four key United States senators would map out a national network of freight corridors and dedicate a percentage of Highway Trust Fund dollars to road projects within that network, a Senate staff member said.

The Maryland Transportation Authority will consider toll increases at its June 2 meeting that could double rates by 2013 for trucks on seven of the state’s eight tolled facilities.

More than 400 contractors, materials suppliers and engineers are expected to rally in Washington Wednesday and to lobby Congress for a new highway bill to replace the one that originally expired in September 2009.

Truckers crossing the Delaware River from New Jersey into Pennsylvania on any of seven tolled bridges upstream of Trenton, N.J., could pay as much as 75 cents more per axle as July 1.

The San Francisco Bay Area Toll Authority is reminding truckers that the first exemption it granted to truckers on higher bridge tolls will expire on June 30.