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Oshkosh Corp. won a $438 million contract from the U.S. military for an additional 1,000 blast-proof trucks, giving the company contracts to build 6,219 of the vehicles destined for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.

American Trucking Associations and two state ATA affiliates, Maryland and Virginia, are taking issue with the District of Columbia’s new thrust on truck lengths and credential requirements.

The chairwoman of a House subcommittee has scheduled a field hearing Monday in Baltimore on a controversial House bill that would prohibit the transportation of flammable liquids in unprotected product piping on both existing and newly-manufactured cargo tank trucks.

Officials in Vermont and New York have decided the Crown Point Bridge connecting the two states at the southern tip of Lake Champlain is too badly deteriorated to repair.

FedEx Corp. said an Internal Revenue Service audit team has proposed that no assessment of federal employment taxes be made against the company’s ground parcel unit for 2002, an important step in FedEx’s continuing legal battle over whether some of its workers are independent contractors or employees.

Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee last week approved a cap-and-trade bill that opponents said would cause a spike in the cost of diesel fuel.

Carriers with multi-employer pension obligations would get as much as 30 years to restore full funding of currently underfunded plans, under legislation introduced by two members of Congress.

Following an unusually rainy fall, the Missouri Department of Transportation is making it easier for farmers to haul their crops to market, the Associated Press reported.