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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.Is this a good climate in which to raise freight rates? And if you raise them, can you make the higher rates stick?

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Motor carriers that have been raising freight rates may be able to hold onto them well beyond the peak holiday shipping season because trucking companies are better managing their capacity, costs and customers, transportation specialists said.

In addition to voting in a Republican Congress Nov. 5, voters in several states elected or returned to the bench judges who said they would favor limiting awards in civil-damage suits, trucking industry and legal experts said.

Cost-conscious shippers are taking advantage of improved rail service to split their long-haul loads between trucks and trains, and they are increasingly using intermodal containers rather than truck trailers to do it.

Ryder, Budget Settle Trademark Suit • Patriot Transportation Reports Gain for Quarter • C.H. Robinson Ups Dividend • Sysco Completes Purchase of Asian Foods • And more ...

Trucks and trains will always compete for certain kinds of business, as will planes and trucks in some markets and ships and planes in others.

The U.S. economy is recovering, but that recovery is likely to be weak through the beginning of 2003, a business research group said Thursday.

Student Finance Corp., a company that at one time was the largest source of loans for private truck-driver training in the United States, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Nov. 4.

Philly-Area Manufacturing Up, Fed Says • N.J. Turnpike Approves Contract for High-Speed E-ZPass • FedEx Freight Launches European Service • Initial Jobless Claims Drop 25,000 • And more ...

In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday period, TTNews.com was not scheduled to publish for the remainder of the week beginning Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 27.