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ATLANTA — The Transportation Intermediaries Association and the National Industrial Transportation League are nearing completion on a revised model agreement between brokers and shippers that is designed to serve as a model contract for freight transactions, TIA’s president said.

ATLANTA — Large truckload carriers U.S. Xpress Enterprises and CRST International last week said they are expanding their team-driver service offerings to tap the refrigerated truckload market for produce shipments.

The National Transportation Safety Board has refused to reconsider its investigation of a fatal 1997 accident in Yonkers, N.Y., one often cited in support of stricter wetlines regulations on tank trucks.

Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives said they would introduce a five-year highway funding bill that would be paid for by expanded domestic oil drilling.

A university sleep study cited by federal regulators in a proposed hours-of-service rule is “insufficient” to justify changing the rule’s 34-hour restart provision, according to American Trucking Associations.

ATLANTA — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will withdraw its rule requiring motor carriers with serious hours-of-service compliance violations to install electronic logging devices June 1, 2012, Administrator Anne Ferro said last week.

U.S. retail diesel prices jumped last week, as the national average gained 10 cents a gallon to $3.987, the largest weekly increase in more than seven months, the Department of Energy reported.

House Republicans said they plan to introduce a five-year highway funding bill that would be paid for by expanded domestic oil drilling.