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Kansas City Southern on Tuesday reported its first-quarter earnings rose to $75 million, or 68 cents a share, from $64 million, or 58 cents, the previous year.

Vehicle components maker Delphi Automotive PLC said Tuesday its first-quarter profit jumped 18% on higher sales.

Canada’s two biggest freight railroads reported higher earnings for the first quarter.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced $20 million in grant funding for projects aimed at reducing pollution from diesel vehicles.

California state officials broke ground Friday on a truck weight scales facility on Interstate 80 in Cordelia, Calif., a move that will help trucks leaving the Port of Oakland, the Contra Costa (Calif.) Times reported.

Truck and auto components maker Eaton Corp.’s first-quarter profit rose 8% as its truck unit’s sales improved 10%, the company said Monday.

As the U.S. economy continues to progress at a less-than-robust pace and motor carriers looking to improve their bottom line turn to the potentially risky tactic of diversifying their service offerings, experts, tech firms and carrier execs said one way to reduce the risk is to adapt the fleets’ existing technology to the new services.

UPS Inc. said it has deployed its first 10 dual-fuel biomethane-diesel vehicles.

I’m proud to be a member of the North American heavy-truck supplier community. Together, we’ve made significant strides in Class 8 truck brake safety, but not since the introduction of non-asbestos brake linings more than 20 years ago has the heavy-duty industry seen technological changes to brakes as significant as those we are experiencing today.