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High driver turnover continues to plague the trucking industry, as third-quarter figures for both large and small truckload fleets stand near levels last seen in 2007, American Trucking Associations reported last week.

Unified Carrier Registration program fees will remain unchanged in 2013, and the organization will seek to collect the fees from more interstate carriers, forwarders and brokers, the group’s chairman said.

CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif. — Utility Trailer Manufacturing Co. said it is spending $13 million this year to update and improve its production, including the use of post-assembly line modification centers, for its lineup of refrigerated, dry van, flatbed and curtainside trailers.

With a potential strike less than two weeks away, contract talks between the union representing East and Gulf Coast dock workers and management continued last week without an agreement.

Freight levels appear to have strengthened during November, showing improvement after Superstorm Sandy temporarily depressed shipment volumes, according to recent carrier and analyst reports.

Volvo Trucks and Mack Trucks Inc. became the latest heavy-duty truck makers to announce their truck models meet 2014 federal greenhouse-gas regulations.

Truck-involved highway fatalities inched up 1.9% to 3,757 in 2011 from 3,686 the year before, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported last week.

Honeywell International Inc. said it has agreed to purchase Intermec Inc. for about $600 million in a deal that would unite two of the transportation industry’s largest suppliers of rugged handheld computers.

U.S. retail diesel prices declined for the seventh time in the past eight weeks, down 3.6 cents to $3.991 a gallon, the U.S. Department of Energy reported.