Government

Mary Phillips, a former senior vice president for Legislative Affairs for American Trucking Associations, is joining the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit as a senior professional staff member.

The federal Department of Transportation is sending California $2 million to assist communities in repairing  roads damaged by recent floods.

On his way out the door toward retirement, Rep. Thomas Petri (R-Wis.) included a technical provision in “Cromnibus” that allows trucks to keep using U.S. 41, the main highway between Milwaukee and Green Bay.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration updated its website on Dec. 17 to reflect the recent suspension of parts of its hours of service rule, a change that took effect when President Obama signed a $1 trillion bill into law Dec. 16.

The New York state Health Department said fracking for natural gas can’t be done safely, dooming prospects that Governor Andrew Cuomo will end a six-year moratorium.

The nation’s worst traffic bottleneck is located in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where Interstate 95 and State Road 4 merge just west of Manhattan’s George Washington Bridge, according to the American Transportation Research Institute’s 2014 survey of congested U.S. freight highways.

A bill that provides millions of dollars in tax credits to the trucking industry in everything from truck buying to using natural gas has been approved by the Senate and sent to President Obama.

The U.S. Senate approved the nomination of Mark Rosekind to become administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Dec. 16 among a batch of nominees to federal positions. 

FedEx Corp. said it has agreed to buy third party logistics provider Genco to broaden the buyer’s presence in the retail and e-commerce markets.