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The public overwhelmingly favors an overhaul of federal motor vehicle safety standards, stepped-up attention to intersection safety and more frequent license testing for the nation’s youngest and oldest drivers, according to a Louis Harris poll released Sept. 27.

Overnite Transportation Co. Chairman Leo Suggs challenged the Teamsters union to a winner-take-all national vote by company workers on whether they want to join the union.

The Department of Transportation’s inspector general went too far when it searched a trucking company’s offices and seized its records last year, said a federal judge in Phoenix.

The Sept. 30 deadline for job actions at the ports of Seattle and Tacoma came and went with no strike called.

A former judge in New Mexico has been appointed special counsel for the Teamsters union’s new anti-corruption campaign.

Support is growing for a separate motor carrier safety administration, with consumer watchdog Joan Claybrook telling the Senate that her organization doesn't necessarily oppose the move.

Officials at the ports of Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., have until the end of September to avoid another strike by container haulers at the ports.

In an effort to avoid a Teamsters union strike of Overnite Transportation Co., the federal labor mediation board volunteered Sept. 17 to help the two sides reach an agreement. The Teamsters accepted the offer; Overnite declined it.

The Teamsters union said it remains on "high alert" for an imminent strike against Overnite Transportation. But so far, the promised picketing of the carrier has not materialized.

The public overwhelmingly favors an overhaul of federal motor vehicle safety standards and mandatory "black boxes" in trucks, according to a Louis Harris poll released Monday.