WASHINGTON — Tremendous trade growth in future years will exacerbate congestion at U.S. seaports unless innovation can keep costs from rising to the point that they endanger market share, experts said during a Transportation Research Board panel here.

Celadon Trucking Services has asked a federal court to reconsider a state court’s $3.8 million judgment against the Indianapolis-based carrier for failing to pass on fuel rebate savings to its drivers.

The California Farm Bureau Federation has petitioned federal regulators for an exemption from 30-minute rest breaks for drivers transporting bees that are critically needed to pollinate crops.

A federal panel in in Charleston, South Carolina, has approved a request by Navistar to consolidate and transfer to a federal court in Chicago 13 of 14 defective engine lawsuits filed against the truck maker in eight separate jurisdictions.

The nation’s worst traffic bottleneck is located in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where Interstate 95 and State Road 4 merge just west of Manhattan’s George Washington Bridge, according to the American Transportation Research Institute’s 2014 survey of congested U.S. freight highways.

Thomas James, CEO of the Truck Renting and Leasing Association since 2009, died unexpectedly Dec. 15. He was 51.

Former Arrow Trucking Co. CEO Doug Pielsticker pulled hundreds of thousands of dollars from company accounts to pay for his wedding and luxury cars in connection with a multimillion-dollar bank and tax fraud, according to a federal indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court earlier this month.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is soliciting applications and nominations from trucking industry stakeholders to serve on an advisory committee to negotiate and help develop proposed regulations for entry-level truck driver training.