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Tennessee hasn’t raised its taxes of 18.4 cents per gallon on diesel and 21.4 cents per gallon on gas since 1989. The decision not to index those taxes to the rate of inflation along with the spread of increasingly fuel-efficient vehicles has caused a funding shortfall that the state’s Department of Transportation estimates at $6 billion.

Pennsylvania truckers, who already pay the nation’s highest diesel fuel taxes, won’t be happy when they fill their vehicles after the New Year. That’s because on Jan. 1 that tax will rise from 63.87 cents per gallon to 77.59 cents per gallon.

WASHINGTON — Representatives from government, private and nonprofit sectors discussed best practices and examples of successful projects Dec. 13 while offering advice to the incoming Trump administration and lawmakers on how to fix the $3.3 trillion infrastructure funding shortfall.    

Mississippi’s Department of Transportation says it has a $526 million funding shortfall. That figure has only grown because of the drought that began in late summer and extended for most of the fall.

Michael Cammisa, a self-­described “car guy” while growing up in Alex­andria, Virginia, is the new vice president of safety policy and connectivity for American Trucking Associations.

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder turned the bills governing autonomous and platooning vehicles into law Dec. 9. Senate Bills 995-997 had been passed overwhelmingly by both houses of Michigan’s Legislature.

Vermont is Bernie Sanders’ home state, but its governor-elect is hardly in the former Democratic presidential candidate’s tax and spend model. Speaking to the Vermont Petroleum Association on Dec. 7, Republican Phil Scott said he wants to rebuild the state’s infrastructure but without raising taxes.