Government

Six Midwestern states recently earned awards for outstanding transportation projects from the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.

The Colorado Department of Transportation has launched a safety program geared toward truckers who traverse mountainous terrain.

The New Jersey Department of Labor and U.S. Department of Labor signed a joint agreement to step up efforts to protect employees, including truck drivers, from illegal misclassification as independent contractors.

The ascent of the dollar is proving almost unstoppable. While U.S. President Donald Trump lamented its strength on Twitter, the greenback continued to surge Aug. 19, taking a Bloomberg index of the U.S. currency to its highest level of 2019.

The U.S. average retail price of diesel dropped 1.7 cents to $2.994 a gallon, the Department of Energy reported Aug. 19. Crude oil prices lifted moderately to pass $56 a barrel as U.S.-China trade tensions eased somewhat, while a drone attack on an oil field in Saudi Arabia rekindled concerns over the oil supply chain.

Sights and sounds from the state truck driving championships.

President Donald Trump said the United States is “doing very well with China, and talking!” but suggested he wasn’t ready to sign a trade deal, hours after his top economic adviser laid out a potential timeline for the resumption of substantive discussions with Beijing.

More than $244 million in grants is available for projects that improve safety, efficiency and reliability, federal railroad regulators announced this month.

Mala Parker’s portfolio at the Federal Highway Administration will include the role of acting deputy administrator, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Aug. 15.

China is stepping up its soybean buying in Brazil as growers in Argentina continue to hoard and the Asian nation avoids American oilseed after an escalation in trade tensions between Washington and Beijing.