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Freightliner Corp. believes on-board recorders will become required safety equipment in the near future, and is placing “black boxes” as standard equipment on its newest products.

The members of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance all agree that motor carrier safety is their top priority, but they disagree on the best approach to reduce accidents and fatalities.

Two shipper groups have asked the Surface Transportation Board to “suspend and investigate” rate increases proposed by four motor carrier rate bureaus.

The first two men to run the Federal Highway Administration’s Office of Motor Carriers, who are now pursuing other careers, have differing views of what changes should be made in the way the Washington regulates truck and bus safety.

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 owner of Ploof Truck Lines, a flatbed truckload carrier based in Jacksonville, Fla., is seeking to sell the company after filing for bankruptcy protection on Sept. 10.

For months, analysts have been predicting the imminent end of the run-up in fuel prices, certain that oil-exporting nations would end their manipulation of petroleum supplies after prices recovered from historic lows in the early part of the year. And they’ve been wrong

The Surface Transportation Board has rejected a request by the Association of American Railroads that it rethink its decision to ignore product and geographic competition in deciding rate reasonableness cases.