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NEW YORK — Shippers will move more freight over the rail-truck intermodal network next year because of falling truck capacity and rising freight rates, according to several transportation industry officials.

WASHINGTON — Officials of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach visited legislators here Nov. 6 to lobby for millions more in federal funding to secure their facilities, the third-busiest seaport complex in the world.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. n response to a letter to the editor about the driver shortage and recruiting 18- and 19-year-olds (in the Nov. 3 issue), does the writer really think that they should be responsible for 80,000 pounds of moving equipment?

The government’s consumer price index was unchanged in October after four months of increases, but excluding volatile food and energy costs, the “core” index rose 0.2%.

PALM COAST, Fla. — Premium low-mileage, late-model used trucks “are drying up at a rapid pace,” sending prices skyward, according to the chairman of the Used Truck Association.

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Business inventories rose 0.3% in September, the first increase in six months, the Commerce Department reported Monday..

WASHINGTON — The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee last week approved a 6-year, $255 billion transportation bill that would fund increases in federal highway spending.