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Con-way Inc. said a union representation election at a Con-way Freight facility in Oakland, California, was called off, marking the latest defeat of labor organizing efforts at the less-than-truckload carrier.

Maverick USA Inc. announced the acquisition of Flanary and Sons Trucking Inc., a Tennessee-based carrier that specializes in shipping architectural flat glass, a building product.

In the latest of a series of recent worker-status rulings, a federal appeals court upheld a Kansas Supreme Court decision last year that classified about 500 FedEx Ground drivers as employees rather than independent contractors under that state’s law.

Truck driver turnover rates fell to a four-year low in the first quarter among larger fleets and declined 12 percentage points at larger and smaller fleets alike, American Trucking Associations reported.

Marten Transport Ltd., a refrigerated carrier, raised second-quarter net income more than 6% to $8.4 million, or 25 cents per share, driven by continued growth in dedicated freight business.

Rising rates and falling fuel prices should drive higher second-quarter earnings in the trucking sector when results begin to roll in this week, analysts said.

A federal court ruled that Massachusetts courier drivers are independent contractors, turning away a bid by the state to classify the workers as employees.

Investors’ fears that the economy will weaken and curtail carriers’ pricing power are pushing down trucking share prices at a time when the broader stock market hovered near record levels before last week’s pullback, analysts said.

The Federal Railroad Administration signaled that effective Jan. 1 it would begin levying fines against freight and passenger railroads if their positive train control projects are not completed.