For the first time since its founding nearly a century ago, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is seeking private investors to help it replace one of its facilities  — the aged Goethals Bridge that connects the New Jersey Turnpike to Staten Island and other points in New York.

The South Carolina Trucking Association said it will withdraw support of a tort reform measure it championed if lawmakers do not kill amendments that the association said have weakened the bill.

The South Carolina Trucking Association said it will withdraw support of a tort reform measure it championed if lawmakers do not kill amendments that the association said have weakened the bill.

A proposal that would allow police to fine drivers of cars and trucks $75 for failing to remove snow and ice from their vehicles has overwhelmingly passed the Connecticut House.

Trucking has a seat on a newly-created transition team that is supposed to set the future course of the Illinois Tollway but higher tolls are not in trucking’s future, the industry representative said.

New Jersey plans to close bathrooms at two more highway rest stops due to budget cutbacks this year, a move that has renewed calls to allow states to lease rest areas to private truck stop operators.

Backers of a proposed new bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, are pressing Michigan state legislators to act on measures that could move the project into the design and construction phase as early as this year.

Maine has adopted legislation that will eventually require heating oil to have the same low-sulfur content as diesel fuel used in trucks, a move some in the oil and trucking industries fear could raise demand and prices for trucking’s main fuel.

New Hampshire transportation officials will not to ask the federal government for permission to toll 20 miles of Interstate 93 from the Massachusetts state line to Manchester.