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Mack Trucks named John Walsh its vice president of marketing, effective Dec. 1.

Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores said it will add 10 compressed natural gas fueling stations at existing locations in Oklahoma.

Cummins Emission Solutions, a division of Cummins Inc., said it was in the advanced development stages of a new urea dosing system for the selective catalytic reduction systems used on most new heavy truck engines.

Will the old saw, “third time’s the charm,” turn out to be true for the truck safety tax-credit bill? That’s what carriers of all sizes are hoping for — although the larger fleets may be hoping a tad harder than their smaller colleagues.

At last, we’ve had some movement on Capitol Hill toward enactment of a new federal transportation funding act.

Transportation advocates said they were not surprised that Senate Republicans blocked President Obama’s $60 billion infrastructure proposal earlier this month, and they see it as an opportunity for Congress to focus on a long-term highway reauthorization bill.

KOPING, Sweden — The Volvo Group said it is moving ahead with a plan to shift the assembly of its I-shift automated mechanical transmission from its factory here to the United States and Brazil for trucks that its subsidiaries build in North and South America.

Vehicle manufacturer Volkswagen AG said last week that it completed the purchase of a majority stake of fellow German truck producer MAN SE, opening the way to becoming “a new top player on the global truck market.”

Fifteen Mexican trucking companies have applied for operating authority to make deliveries in the United States under the cross-border pilot program, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said last week.