Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell wants any company that ships cargo from the port in Norfolk via barge or rail rather than truck to receive a $50 per container state income tax credit.

A blue-ribbon committee that spent two years studying how to pay for road improvements in Arkansas has unveiled a list of possibilities that includes higher fuel taxes.

The co-chairmen of a bipartisan presidential commission created to find ways to reduce the federal deficit last week called for gradually raising the federal fuel tax by 15 cents a gallon, beginning in 2013.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has ruled that it is illegal for New Jersey and two local governments to require trucks to display decals or other forms of identification.

Two bills introduced in the House shortly before Congress adjourned for the midterm elections would raise the federal diesel tax to pay for improved infrastructure or help boost new truck equipment purchases.

American Trucking Associations has filed court papers backing the state of Alabama in a U.S. Supreme Court case that could determine whether states can charge railroads sales tax on fuel purchases but exempt truckers.

Oregon’s truck weight-mile tax is set to increase Oct. 1 by an average of 24.5%, along with the flat fees some truckers pay.

All 50 states impose at least one form of annual property tax. Also known as an ad valorem tax, Latin for “according to value,” property taxes come in two types, real and personal.

President Obama will ask Congress for tax breaks to allow businesses to write off new capital investments through 2011, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.

More than two dozen transportation advocacy groups have asked the drafters of a Senate energy and climate bill to reconsider their legislation to allocate new revenue from transportation-based motor fuel fees to “activities entirely unrelated to improving the nation’s transportation infrastructure.”