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NEW ORLEANS — Ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel is going to have to leave refineries at well below new federal sulfur-content levels for 2006 because contamination as it moves through pipelines is inevitable, according to refiners, pipeline operators and environmental officials.

A spokeswoman for the California Air Resources Board said that it had received more than 3,000 comments on whether or not it should seek a waiver from federal Clean Air Act rules so that a Southern California air-quality agency could require public fleets to buy cleaner-running engines.

OPEC Cuts Oil Demand Estimates • Rail Intermodal Volume Posts Another Strong Week • Long Beach Port Sets Monthly Cargo Record • N.D. Supreme Court to Hear Fuel-Tax Appeal • And more...

NEW YORK — Truckload carrier executives said they were signing shorter-term contracts with shippers and adjusting how they collect fuel surcharges to better use equipment and control operating costs amid tight capacity, high driver turnover and sharply rising fuel costs.

NEW YORK — Truckload carriers could raise freight rates as much as 8% in 2005, fleet officials and analysts said, as high freight volumes keep capacity tight and an inability to hire qualified drivers limits carrier expansion..

American Trucking Associations has named Curtis Whalen, a former transportation and energy lobbyist and Capitol Hill staff member, to serve as executive director of a newly reconstituted Intermodal Motor Carriers Conference.

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The Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday it started testing the Transportation Worker Identity Credential Program at the Port of Long Beach, Calif., container terminal and would expand the program to 34 more sites in the next seven months.

The Conference Board said Thursday its index of leading economic indicators fell 0.3% in October, the fifth consecutive decline.