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The owner of Lakeville Motor Express, a company that in recent years has operated as a cartage agent for Minnesota-based regional less-than-truckload carrier LME Inc., said he has shut down the business due to “heavy financial losses” and operational difficulties, including “the inability to hire drivers.”

A sharp decline in registrations of new trucks is taking the air out of what has been a remarkably robust period of growth in the size of the nation’s Class 8 fleet.

The Federal Trade Commission has charged two people with using a fake government affiliation to sell registration services to truck owners and operators.

Schneider, the nation’s largest privately owned motor carrier and a major provider of intermodal transportation and logistics services, has decided to go public.

Specialized heavy haulers and crane rental and rigging firms in the United States are seeing an uptick in business as residential and commercial construction activity continues to expand.

The U.S. Department of Transportation last week issued guidelines for testing and deployment of highly automated vehicles. Top administration officials said they want to promote development of self-driving technology to reduce crashes on the nation’s roadways.

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