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Shippers that plan to hoard trailers for storage or excess capacity during the year-end holiday season could get slapped with a detention charge from their carriers.

Shippers once again beat up on the railroads over issues of productivity and competition at the Council of Logistics Management’s annual meeting last week.

Shipments of truck trailers during August totaled 23,652, according to the Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association, behind last year's record-setting pace.

Hawaii's shipping industry and the state dockworkers' union reached a tentative settlement early Monday, averting a dock strike that threatened to cripple the islands' economy.

In the news this morning: Teamsters, Overnite dispute who has the upper hand; Truck supplier fingered in drug ring; and Illinois changes exams for state commercial driver licenses.

Overnite Transportationsaid it will continue to operate normally despite the appearance of Teamster picket lines at a number of its terminals across the country.

This afternoon's headlines: Renault CEO says he won't bail out Nissan Diesel; Oshkosh Truck reports record net income for fiscal 1999; and Colo. city referendum may force truck detour.

John Chafee, Rhode Island's longtime Republican senator and chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, died Sunday, a spokesman said. He was 77.

General Motors' ongoing switch to the Edifact EDI system could force many trucking companies to abandon the X12 messaging sets in favor of the new international system.