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Paul Mattox, who has served as West Virginia's transportation secretary since 2006, will return to the private sector as the governor-elect, Jim Justice, fills his cabinet with his own appointees, according to the West Virginia Metro News Network.

Joe McGuinness has been tapped to take over as commissioner of Indiana’s Department of Transportation, leaving his post as mayor of Franklin, Indiana.

A truck driver pauses at one of the few intersections in the border area of Santa Teresa, New Mexico, as he tries to navigate a narrow turn while transporting a giant wind turbine blade.

The Moroun family, owners of the Ambassador Bridge, have raised yet another challenge to the construction of a rival bridge — the Gordie Howe International Bridge.

WASHINGTON — An increasing number of today’s interstate household moves aren’t executed by the nation’s 4,153 traditional moving companies, according to the newly formed Household Goods Consumer Protection Working Group, posing potential harm to consumers by unregulated firms usually found online.

Nontraditional bank lending to trucking companies picked up moderately in the second half of 2016 as fleets sought to survive during a sluggish freight market, according to lenders with exposure in transportation financing.

A downturn in long-distance moves by individuals, corporations and the military in 2016 is putting pressure on household goods movers and could spur a new round of industry consolidation and retrenchment, executives and industry officials said.

Transportation officials from Rhode Island, Maryland and Idaho were among the applicants seeking federal grants to help pay for improvements to critical freight corridors in their states.