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The Western Governors’ Association has urged Congress to allow interested states to create pilot programs to evaluate the benefits and costs of adding routes for longer combination vehicles.

For-hire trucking companies hired 1,000 workers in June, the third consecutive month the number of industry jobs increased, the Labor Department said July 2.

As the recession appears to be waning and freight shipments increase, trucking-related firms such as the Allen Lund Cos. say they are seeing a shift in the loads-procurement marketplace, while others — including Con-way’s brokerage unit — are turning to new technological formats to find cargo in need of transportation.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is 60% of the way to its broad goal of doubling its shipping efficiency by 2015 by streamlining every aspect of the freight movement process, according to its leading sustainability official.

While Wall Street and economists are fretting about the staying power of the economic recovery, good news is expected to begin arriving this week in the form of sharply higher second-quarter earnings for publicly traded trucking firms.

While Wall Street continues to express its doubts about the strength of the U.S. economic recovery that is under way, most trucking companies say that business is continuing to improve.

TransCore Holdings, a major electronic load board operator, reported a tripling of activity across its U.S.-Canadian network in May, calling it the busiest May the company has seen in 10 years.

What does every intermodal shipment need that no one wants to really talk about? The answer — and the elephant in the room — is an intermodal chassis.

Officials with the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach said shipping terminals were open and operating this week during negotiations between terminal operators and a striking shipping clerks union.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration sent its new hours-of-service proposal to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s office for review in late June, according to a Department of Transportation report issued early this month.