ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø

If an appeals court agrees with a lower court judge who backed the Port of Los Angeles’ argument that it is a business, then all drayage truck drivers will be required to be employees of licensed motor carriers.

Large and small carriers increasingly find themselves on opposite sides of a widening gulf when the topic is electronic logging devices — particularly when the issue is whether or not ELDs should be required by government mandate.

Transport Topics Online will be closed Monday for the Memorial Day holiday. Please check back on Tuesday, May 31, for the latest trucking and freight transportation news.

A new study has concluded that Boston should ban the transport of nearly all nonradioactive hazardous materials through the downtown and North End areas to protect the public.

Freight capacity remains generally tight and demand strong ahead of the summer shipping season, ac-ording to several carrier executives and analysts.

Truckers crossing the northern Delaware River between New Jersey and Pennsylvania on any of seven tolled bridges could pay as much as 75 cents more per axle as of July 1.

Although the U.S. economy continues to improve, there remains a spottiness within the freight-hauling sector, a logistics executive said.

The westbound lanes of Interstate 40 in eastern Arkansas that were closed due to flooding over the weekend have reopened, the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — The trucking industry has made great strides in truck safety over the past decade, but numerous challenges remain as motor carriers and truck drivers cope with an increasingly tough regulatory environment, industry executives told the National Transportation Safety Board Tuesday.