WASHINGTON — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will move forward with a host of developing rules and regulations regarding trucking this year, Administrator Anne Ferro said Tuesday.

The U.S. Department of Transportation said it will give $1.58 billion to help repair roads and bridges damaged by recent natural disasters.

Representatives of the bus travel industry told federal regulators Monday that hours-of-service rules for interstate bus drivers need not be changed, while drivers asked for more restrictions, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported.

Legislation introduced Friday in both houses of Congress would provide for federal oversight of bridge and tunnel tolls, allowing the U.S. Department of Transportation to determine whether proposed toll increases should be implemented.

The federal government will replace thousands of Transportation Worker Identification Credential cards that were improperly encoded and do not work with card readers, the Transportation Safety Administration said.

American Trucking Associations has asked the federal government to overturn an Alabama law requiring truck drivers who transport metal coils to obtain special certification to do so.

A Louisiana judge rejected a challenge to the state’s anti-indemnification law, saying the Louisiana Chemical Association had no grounds for its lawsuit in which the group called the statute unconstitutional.

Arizona has formally asked the federal government for permission to toll its 29-mile section of Interstate 15, but the governor of neighboring Utah and the trucking industry are pushing back against the proposal.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s decision to allow a Mexico-based carrier to operate in the United States received praise from U.S. groups whose exports to Mexico will soon be free from retaliatory tariffs.

WASHINGTON — House Republicans attacked President Obama’s proposal for a national infrastructure bank at a hearing Wednesday, saying it is unnecessary and its goals could be achieved through other means.