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House and Senate Appropriations funding leaders plan to unveil a fiscal 2015 omnibus spending bill soon — a measure backed by trucking leaders hoping to turn back a law regulating how long a driver can be behind the wheel.

Those sifting last week’s state election results for clues about the future of transportation issues may find more contradictions than answers.

Shippers are asking carriers and logistics companies to handle their entire books of freight, with truckload, less-than-truckload, intermodal and parcel deliveries in the mix, transportation software makers said.

Southern California port truckers, crippled by extensive delays, intend to seek the first-ever federal hours-of-service rule waiver for the sector in a bid to free up clogged cargo at the two largest U.S. ports.

Voters handed control of the U.S. Senate to Republicans last week, strengthening the GOP’s ability to advance transportation initiatives when the next Congress convenes in January but lowering the prospects of action before then, analysts said.

Look back at election results as they happened Tuesday night in our live blog, with a focus on Senate and House races that mattered most in the world of transportation.

Truckers such as Bill Compton, Tom Camp, Henry Bates and Al Weddle have more in common than their love of the road.

Judy McReynolds, CEO of ArcBest Corp., has been chosen the new chairwoman of the American Transportation Research Institute.

A total of 9,090 trucks were taken off the road due to fleet bankruptcies in the third quarter, a slight decline from the second quarter, as rising freight rates and falling fuel prices helped keep some marginal fleets afloat, Avondale Partners analyst Donald Broughton said.