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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration amended its definition of “gross combination weight rating” to clarify enforcement practices when single-unit trucks are towing trailers.

The Department of Transportation has hired Dan Katz as counselor to Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, a department spokeswoman confirmed March 20.

An Oregon Circuit Court judge has halted the state’s practice of trading Department of Motor Vehicles records for website and computer services because the system shortchanges funding for road work.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced March 19 it has shut down two motor carriers for disregarding federal safety regulations and putting their companies’ drivers, passengers and the public at risk.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has extended the state’s height and permit waiver for transporting round hay bales, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles said.

The New Jersey Department of Transportation announced three grants worth a total of $700,000 that would help municipalities in three counties advance safety and pavement reconstruction projects.

After decades and millions of dollars spent in the planning stages, the effort to build a new bridge over the Columbia River between Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, Wash., has come to a halt due to a lack of funding.

National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman will leave the independent federal agency she has led for five years to become president of the National Safety Council, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has improved the statistical foundation of its Compliance, Safety, Accountability program but still has a significant amount of work to do to complete the process, according to an inspector general’s report.