Trucking companies in North Dakota are going to be able to have greater flexibility and efficiency serving the agriculture industry with overweight and oversize permits due to a new law passed at the request of the state highway patrol.

Regulators in North Dakota have extended a deadline for freight haulers to apply to participate in a pilot program that would allow longer trailer configurations on state roads.

North Dakota has the best state-owned road system in the country, according to Reason Foundation’s recently released Annual Highway Report.

The North Dakota Department of Transportation will use a recently awarded federal grant to deploy an autonomous attenuator truck.