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Finance and information technology trucking executives are set to meet this week in Phoenix, as American Trucking Associations embarks on a campaign to reinvigorate some of its councils that had to retrench during the recession.

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.

Third-party logistics firms PenserSC and ICS Logistics said they have agreed to a trucking and transportation services contract.

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.

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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.