The Internal Revenue Service is advising truckers and other owners of heavy highway vehicles that their next federal highway use tax return, normally due Aug. 31, will instead be due Nov. 30.

Motor carriers filling up in North Carolina will be paying 2.5 cents more in diesel taxes beginning July 1.

Maine’s legislature has approved a two-year, $637 million transportation funding bill that would end annual fuel tax increases tied to inflation beginning next year.

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).

Fleets could receive tax credits for certain advanced safety technologies under a bill introduced this month in the House of Representatives.

The news from the Obama White House that it has no intention of pursuing a new tax regime based on the number of miles vehicles travel is most welcome for the trucking industry.

A draft of the Obama administration’s transportation reauthorization plan calls for creation of an office within the Federal Highway Administration that would spend six years studying a vehicle-miles-traveled tax to help fund the nation’s surface transportation system.

Trucking industry officials have hailed congressional action to repeal an unpopular Internal Revenue Service reporting requirement contained in the 2010 health-care reform law and said they were confident Congress would approve repeal.

What was the most important event that occurred in 1958? The creation of NASA? Perhaps the birth of the King of Pop? For privately owned trucking and logistics companies, there is only one answer: tax legislation permitting S corporations.