A difficult and expensive trip to one of the nation's largest intermodal facilities in Illinois has become a thorn in the side of many truckers who service the center.

American Trucking Associations and two major business lobbying groups filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit asking a three-judge panel to find in favor of a FedEx Corp. subsidiary and against the National Labor Relations Board.

Ceva Logistics, a non-asset-based freight company in Houston, said Aug. 26 it began a guaranteed weekly less-than-containerload service to New York from Singapore with subsequent motor carrier service to 51 destinations on the East Coast and in the Midwest.

Energy-efficient port operations are expected to rise tenfold over the next 10 years as truckers use more natural gas-powered trucks and ports deploy more technology such as shore power to reduce fuel consumption, a new report says.