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As Oregon’s vehicle mile tax pilot program hits the one-year mark on July 1, California’s nine-month program, which unlike Oregon’s includes commercial vehicles, is just beginning.

Not long before 1 a.m. on June 28, New Jersey’s Assembly dominated by Democrats turned its back on a package that paired a fuel-tax increase with a phase-out of the estate tax and approved a deal with Republican Gov. Chris Christie that balances the fuel-tax rise with a 1% decrease in the state’s sales tax by 2018.

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx sees “a tsunami of change” coming in transportation over the next 30 years. That was the theme of his speech at Volpe, the National Transportation Systems Center on June 27 in Boston.

The transportation committees of the New Jersey Assembly and Senate overwhelmingly passed 10-year, $23 billion bills that would bolster the state’s Transportation Trust Fund. The full chambers must vote on the measures before the fund’s borrowing authority expires July 1.

The U.S. Department of Transportation wasn’t planning to announce the winner of its Smart City Challenge until June 23, but Sen. Sherrod Brown  (D-Ohio) revealed on June 21 that Columbus had been chosen over the six other finalists.

John Bel Edwards, who became Louisiana’s governor last November, is making infrastructure funding a priority.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered NFI Interactive Logistics to reinstate a truck driver who was fired for refusing to violate his hours of service, and the Cherry Hill, New Jersey-based company also was ordered to pay the driver $276,000 in back wages and damages.

Rhode Island’s trucking industry, locked in a heated battle with Gov. Gina Raimondo for the last year over her truck-only tolls road funding plan, could be on its way to $6 million in relief.