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Carrier executives say they are becoming increasingly frustrated with spending the time and associated costs it takes for their drivers to inch their way through highway toll plazas.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The truck-rail intermodal market, on pace for a record year, has a realistic chance to grow even faster in the near future with truckers as the driving force, several industry officials and observers said.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Uneasiness is mounting about the future supply of intermodal chassis because no single source has yet emerged to supply equipment, freight industry executives said.

Federal regulators rejected a plea from several states to waive the requirement for gasoline producers to blend ethanol into their fuel, saying the economic conditions necessary for such a waiver did not exist.

Walmart Canada Corp. is hoping to revolutionize freight transportation in Canada with a huge new cargo carrier.

UPS Inc. will increase its rates for parcel shipping by 4.5% for air-express packages and by 4.9% for ground delivery, effective Dec. 31.

Floodwaters left by Superstorm Sandy sent many commercial trucks to the junk yard, and service providers are warning that those vehicles that can be repaired probably will face recurring maintenance issues.

The national average price of diesel fuel slid four-tenths of a cent to $3.976 a gallon, the fifth straight weekly decline in the cost of trucking’s main fuel, the Department of Energy reported last week.

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