The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) is getting serious about alternative fuels.

Elaine Chao of Kentucky, who was Secretary of Labor under President George W. Bush, was named to be the next Transportation Secretary by President-elect Donald Trump, according to a report in USA Today.

China is gearing up to overhaul its road delivery with fleets of self-driving long-haul trucks, according to a piece in technologyreview.com.

The Trump administration looks to offer the trucking business some badly needed road and infrastructure projects, but the industry will have to pay for the improvements, either through higher fuel taxes or tolls according to an article in trucks.com.

Big trucking companies have spent the second half of the year shrinking their fleets in hopes of changing an imbalance between the supply of rigs on the road and tepid shipping demand that has flattened industry earnings, according to the Wall Street Journal.