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The National Fraternal Order of Police has endorsed suspending the year-old federal hours-of-service rule change, a proposal senators are expected to take up before their August recess.

The Port of Long Beach, California, last week named Jon Slangerup as its new executive director.

The fledgling load-matching service Cargomatic is bidding to capitalize on unused capacity in local trucking markets by using a wireless or smart-phone application, beginning with Southern California.

Comment from fleets, owner-operators and others concerned with electronic logging devices poured into the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration right up until the deadline.

The federal agency charged with compiling a list of African smelters and refiners that produce “conflict minerals” is nearly 18 months behind schedule in providing information that could help publicly traded companies guard against using the tainted minerals.

With the federal highway account rapidly running out of money, a Senate committee plans to vote this week on a bill that would provide more than $8 billion to pay for transportation projects around the country for the remainder of the year.

Signaling a windfall in the tank industry, Wabash National Corp.’s Brenner Tank, a manufacturer of chemical tank trailers, is expanding production to Lafayette, Indiana.

The Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore & Warehouse Union confirmed that talks are continuing past the June 30 contract expiration without freight delays.