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The Ohio Turnpike has a new chief executive. Richard Hodges, 48 currently a lobbyist for the state workers compensation bureau was approved for the position of executive director in a four to zero vote of the state Turnpike Commission at a special meeting today. Like George Distel his predecessor Hodges is a former politician who had seven years in the state House. But unlike Distel a Democrat, Hodges is a Republican.

Roger E Nutt, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett's nominee for CEO of the state Turnpike was formally appointed to the job by the Turnpike Commission at their meeting in Harrisburg today. The 5-person Commission voted unanimously for Nutt's appointment. Nutt, who is 70, was called out of retirement in Florida by Gov Corbett after a long career in state transportation in New Jersey.

Pennyslvania Turnpike CEO, Joe Brimmeier is retiring, he told colleagues at the Turnpike Thursday afternoon. Also on Tuesday he told commissioners of his planned retirement and said it would be effective January 28, we understand.

There is nothing official yet.

Talk in the industry is that the turbulence at Federal Signal is in large part a result of difficulty integrating the four major toll systems businesses. William Osborne a middle level executive at Ford before he was recruited as CEO of Federal Signal in September 2008 is said by people he spoke to in the toll industry to have admitted he was stumped on how to bring the four toll system businesses together effectively.