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A commitment to safety and to mentorship helped earn ADOT Enforcement and Compliance Division (ECD) Officer Matt Drury recognition as the Arizona Trucking Association’s 2025 ADOT ECD Officer of the Year.
This week's episode of On the Road with ADOT podcast features the I-10 Wild Horse Pass Corridor Project, which will add lanes and other much-needed upgrades along 26 miles of the interstate between Chandler and Casa Grande.
Grogginess, yawning, sluggishness — they’re all signs of fatigue. That fatigue can make it harder to get through a workday, and your motor skills can be impaired. If you drive while drowsy, it could result in a crash. So during Drowsy...

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With triple-digit temperatures, it can be hard to recall those winter days when snow-covered roads require plowing to make passage possible.
For chip seal work, like what our crews just completed on State Route 88, a tack coat is the glue that holds it all together.
One way ADOT helps owners of Disadvantaged Business Enterprises is through conferences such as the ADOT DBE and Small Business Conference occurring this week.
A recent bridge strike in the East Valley is a good reminder about why it's always important to make sure whatever you're hauling is completely secured.
It's a rainbow of color in our "Where in AZ??" challenge this week.
It took a century to turn the old, sleepy Black Canyon stagecoach route into the super highway we know as Interstate 17.
It was a harrowing two hours for his owner after little George slipped out at ADOT's Burnt Well Rest Area. But all ended well.
A new state law allows homeless vets to get a driver license or ID card for free, easing the path out of poverty and off the street.
Two-way traffic is being restored in stages along Liberty Lane, where crews are relocating a large waterline from the path of the South Mountain Freeway in Ahwatukee.
Another Sunday, another beautiful Arizona scene for our "Where in AZ??" challenge!