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WEST GREENWICH, R.I. — Rhode Island began charging tractor-trailers to drive on Interstate 95 on the morning of June 11. But while opponents rallied against a tolling scheme they call unconstitutional, it is unclear when — or even if — a long-threatened legal challenge will come.

The first of more than a dozen new Rhode Island truck-toll gantries now stands above Route 95 South in Exeter.

SMITHFIELD, R.I. — Cargo ships are growing. Shipping rates have plunged. Ports are expanding across the East Coast.

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.

Before the Providence port can expand, voters would need to endorse Rhode Island's vision in November by approving the $20 million purchase of up to 25 acres of property to expand the city’s port.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Before they authorized a statewide network of truck tolls earlier this year, Rhode Island lawmakers told the local trucking industry that a financial relief package to help deal with the cost of the new tolls would soon follow.