Most publicly traded less-than-truckload operators are likely to report improved results when fourth-quarter earnings reports begin this week, but profit growth in other sectors is expected to be slower, analysts predict.

Load-board activity in November fell 9.5%, led by flatbed loads, but increased on a year-over-year basis, according to DAT, a load board owned by TransCore.

A General Electric Co. subsidiary has opted not to appeal a federal court injunction that barred it from shipping megaloads destined for Canadian oil and gas fields along a remote Idaho highway through Nez Perce tribal lands, Reuters reported.

Universal Truckload Services Inc. said its net income in the third quarter dropped 8.7% to $13.7 million or 46 cents a share, from $15 million, or 50 cents, a year prior.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Officials with the Truckload Carriers Association said they are evaluating how to address potential federal government changes to insurance limits, the issue of driver coercion and expanding the interstate driver corps to include 18-to-21 year olds.

Load-board freight activity fell 5.3% in September compared with August but was 22% higher than the prior year, according to DAT, a load board owned by TransCore.

Federal forest administrators issued an order to suspend megaloads from a section of U.S. Highway 12 that runs through north-central Idaho, the Associated Press reported.

Attorneys from Idaho’s Nez Perce Tribe and from a unit of General Electric Co. argued in federal court Sept. 9, in Boise about megaloads moving through the tribe’s reservation and a national park, the Associated Press reported.

The latest DAT Trendlines report of spot freight market activity and rate trends shows increases in loads and few signs of changes in rates.