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The rate at which fatalities occurred in truck-involved crashes increased 9.4% in 2010 from the previous year’s all-time low, according to an analysis of Department of Transportation mileage data made public last week.

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The increasing need to conserve driver hours, coupled with the spread of electronic onboard recorders and analytical tools, are driving more fleets to adopt a new yardstick, revenue per hour, to measure productivity, industry officials said.

Daimler Trucks North America said it was recalling all 110,000 of its 2006-2013 Freightliner, Western Star and Sterling trucks equipped with Detroit Diesel 13-, 15- and 16-liter engines to fix a defect the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said could cause accidents, fuel leaks and fires.

Truck producer Navistar International Corp. reported a loss of $153 million for its fiscal first quarter, attributing $112 million of the loss to costs of repairing faulty engines, including initial models of its 2010 technology engines.

Wholesale used Class 8 truck dealers have seen more of a drop-off in their business than retailers and auctioneers because of the difficulty of getting product, but the used truck market could get some relief from trade-ins resulting from burgeoning new truck sales, according to ACT Research Co. and some dealers.

Celadon Trucking Services Inc.’s practice requiring pre-employment physical exams for drivers is the subject of a new lawsuit, in which the federal government said the exams violate a federal law prohibiting discrimination related to certain disabilities.

Retail diesel prices advanced an additional 4.3 cents a gallon to a national average of $4.094 last week, a level not seen in 10 months, the U.S. Department of Energy reported.

Oil rose for a third day, finishing the trading day over $107 a barrel for the first time in 10 days, Bloomberg reported.

The U.S. unemployment rate held at 8.3% in February, and trucking added more than 10,000 jobs, the Labor Department said Friday.