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California environmental regulators said they will soon decide how to distribute early grants totaling $25 million for truck retrofits and replacements to help reduce diesel emissions at the state’s ports and intermodal facilities.

American Trucking Associations’ Intermodal Motor Carriers Conference has asked the Federal Maritime Commission to block the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles and terminal operators from discussing and entering into agreements related to the ports’ clean trucks program.

Less-than-truckload company Con-way Freight said Monday it has turned back the speed governors on its 8,400-tractor fleet to run at a maximum 62 miles per hour, down from a previous 65 mph, in an effort to improve fuel conservation and reduce carbon emissions.

Refrigerated truckload carrier Frozen Food Express Industries said it lost $3.5 million, or 21 cents a share, in the fourth quarter, compared with net income of $4.3 million, or 24 cents, a year earlier.

FedEx Corp. said Friday that Ken May has resigned as chief executive officer of its FedEx Kinko’s unit, effective March 31.

While politicians and pollsters count up votes and delegates in the long, slow march to the presidential election this November, trucking industry officials said the upcoming change in power clouds the industry’s outlook for 2009 and beyond.

Volkswagen AG last week bought a controlling share in Swedish truck maker Scania AB, possibly clearing the way for a three-way merger with German truck maker MAN AG, a combination that would create Europe’s largest heavy-truck producer.