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Arkansas Best Corp., the parent of less-than-truckload carrier ABF Freight System, said Monday its first-quarter profit fell to $6.1 million or 24 cents a share, from $10.5 million or 41 cents a year earlier.

American Trucking Associations said it opposed a bill before the California legislature that would require all diesel fuel sold in the state to contain at least 2% biodiesel by 2008 and at least 5% biodiesel by 2010.

Truck dealers said they are making plans to weather the expected slowdown in heavy-duty truck sales next year, even as 2006 shapes up as one of their best sales year ever.

Engine and heavy-equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.’s first-quarter profit jumped 45% to $840 million or $1.20 a share, from $581 million or 81 cents a year ago, it reported Monday.

The average national price of self-serve regular gasoline jumped 24 cents to $2.91 a gallon in the two weeks ended Friday, according to the latest Lundberg Survey of filling stations released Sunday.

The American Truck Dealers division of the National Automobile Dealers Association named Robert Hunter as its 2006 Dealer of the Year at the ATD annual convention and exhibition in Atlanta, Saturday through Monday.

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More cross-border carriers are getting ready to file electronic manifests before the U.S. Customs and Border Protection makes such filing mandatory as early as August.

Less-than-truckload carrier YRC Worldwide late Monday reported its first-quarter earnings fell to $42.1 million or 71 cents a share, from $49.9 million or 96 cents in the same quarter last year.

YRC Worldwide Friday said its board approved a stock repurchase program authorizing the company to repurchase up to $100 million of its common stock.