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The International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association, representing 29 ports on the West Coast, reached a tentative contract agreement Saturday, several news outlets reported.

WASHINGTON – Joseph M. Clapp, the former Roadway Corp. chairman who last year became the first permanent head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, will retire before January, according to Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta.

The national average price of diesel fuel remained unchanged at $1.405 per gallon, the Department of Energy reported Monday in its weekly survey.

Annette Sandberg, deputy administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, will likely be the next administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, based on comments by Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta in an exclusive interview with Transport Topics.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.Is this a good climate in which to raise freight rates? And if you raise them, can you make the higher rates stick?

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Motor carriers that have been raising freight rates may be able to hold onto them well beyond the peak holiday shipping season because trucking companies are better managing their capacity, costs and customers, transportation specialists said.

In addition to voting in a Republican Congress Nov. 5, voters in several states elected or returned to the bench judges who said they would favor limiting awards in civil-damage suits, trucking industry and legal experts said.