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In addition to their recent agreement on a new five-year labor contract covering UPS Inc.’s Teamsters parcel workers, the two announced a second pact to cover 125 drivers and dockworkers at the Indianapolis terminal of less-than-truckload unit UPS Freight.

The California Trucking Association said it is advocating a “collaborative strategy” with Southern California port officials to develop an alternative plan for trucks to meet emission goals.

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The Transportation Security Administration said it would begin to enroll truck drivers and other port workers in its Transportation Worker Identification Credential program at the port of Wilmington, Del., this month.

The European Space Agency has selected TransCore and Novacom Services to lead the development of an asset-tracking prototype that will provide visibility of intermodal containers and eliminate the line-of-sight complications that hinder container tracking.

The California Air Resources Board, in a September staff report, proposed to require Class 8 trucks to be outfitted with fuel-efficiency technologies such as cab fairings, skirts, low-rolling-resistance tires and automatic tire-inflation systems by 2010.

The Environmental Protection Agency said it will expand a program to provide lower-cost loans for the purchase of cleaner-burning trucks to drivers in the Norfolk, Va., area.

American Trucking Associations members will focus on the business side of the industry at this year’s Management Conference & Exhibition in Orlando, Fla., ATA President Bill Graves said.

The sluggish U.S. economy has pulled down truck trailer sales this year and there are no signs of an imminent rebound, according to industry data on registrations and production.

UPS Inc. and the Teamsters union agreed Sept. 30 on a new five-year tentative contract that, among its provisions, would allow the parcel carrier to pay $6.1 billion to leave the union’s Central States Health & Welfare and Pension Funds.