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GRAPEVINE, Texas — Intermodal truckers are seeing painfully slow progress on two long-standing and related issues — changes in the providers of chassis for container shipments and effective implementation of federal chassis safety rules, industry officials reported.

GRAPEVINE, Texas — Despite economic uncertainty and political turmoil, the trucking industry is poised for better days ahead, Bill Graves, American Trucking Associations president and chief executive officer, said last week.

GRAPEVINE, Texas — American Trucking Associations and the Truckload Carriers Association last week created a united front in the industry’s drive to raise truck weight limits by endorsing both an 88,000-pound limit for 5-axle tractor-trailers and a 97,000-pound limit for 6-axle configurations.

GRAPEVINE, Texas — The nation’s top trucking executives left a crucial round of meetings here united behind a plan to campaign for a higher weight limit and resolved to fight port regulations before the U.S. Supreme Court but without a firm proposal on driver working hours or a federal commitment to transportation infrastructure improvement.

GRAPEVINE, Texas — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s top official said the agency is working feverishly to complete a controversial final hours-of-service rule, but trucking executives predicted last week that FMCSA won’t finish by an Oct. 28 deadline set by a U.S. court.

Frozen Food Express Industries said it will sell more than 400 dry vans and almost 300 tractors to truckload carrier Celadon Trucking Services.

Existing home sales slipped 3% in September, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday.

There are more than 18,000 structurally deficient bridges located in about 100 U.S. metropolitan regions, according to a new study on deteriorating infrastructure.

An index of leading economic indicators continued to rise in September, the New York-based Conference Board said Thursday.

Manufacturing activity in the Philadelphia region increased in October, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said Thursday.