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Legislation to increase highway funding in West Virginia by more than $290 million a year — primarily through increasing the state sales tax from 6% to 7% — is headed to the state’s House of Delegates, which has proved adverse to tax hikes.

Transportation activity was mixed in the United States early in the year as weakness in the energy sector limited gains, the Federal Reserve reported.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose last week to a level that’s consistent with steady improvement in the labor market.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — American Trucking Associations’ Technology & Maintenance Council honored several industry professionals March 2 with a variety of awards for their service to the council and the industry.

As some in the trucking industry feared, Rhode Island’s plan to make only trucks pay tolls within its borders has another state thinking about doing the same.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Corrosion is unavoidable, but experts say minimize it, slow it down during a vehicle’s useful life and realize help is at hand.

Toledo, Ohio police will resume enforcing truck weight limits later this month after a seven-year, budget-related hiatus, the department announced March 1.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Flatbed entrepreneur Don Daseke continues to build his rapidly growing company by hunting for merger candidates, even though the current business environment does not favor an initial public offering for what is now the second-largest company in his sector of trucking.

CSX Corp. jumped as much as 8% after the close of trading in New York, following a report that Canadian Pacific Railway approached the U.S. railroad about a takeover in January and was rebuffed.

Companies added more workers than projected in February, indicating the U.S. job market remains strong, according to a private report based on payrolls.