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The Rhode Island Department of Transportation banned tractor-trailers from all state highways for most of Jan. 4 as the state faced heavy snow and high winds.

Rhode Island transportation officials are delaying implementation of the initial phase of a trucks-only toll plan until February or March to shore up work on the plan’s environmental permitting, technical, engineering and financial requirements, a state Department of Transportation spokesman said.

Rhode Island House Republican minority leader Patricia Morgan and trucking industry leaders are disputing state Department of Transportation revenue projections for the truck-only tolling RhodeWorks program slated to be in place in 2018.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — State transportation officials May 24 said they have chosen a company to design, build, operate and maintain Rhode Island's controversial toll network system.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — In their latest assault on Rhode Island's impending truck toll network, Republican state lawmakers and the trucking industry released an analysis on May 23 claiming the plan will generate far less revenue than expected and lead to unnecessary construction projects.

A financial relief package expected to help the Rhode Island trucking industry weather the onset of truck tolls is proving more expensive than first thought.

When Rhode Island tried to remove some of the sting of its trucks-only tolling plan in July with a $4 million cut in registration fees for trucks in the Ocean State, the state’s trucking association called it “a token gesture.” 

Rhode Island had a pair of bridges in East Providence that were in such poor condition that Vice President Joe Biden termed one of them “shameful” during a visit this spring.