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Automakers and engine manufacturers are suing the Environmental Protection Agency over its plan to allow fuel stations to sell gasoline with 15% ethanol, the Associated Press reported.

Heavy-duty retail truck sales in the United States increased 8.5% in November from a year earlier to 9,614 units, the 11th consecutive monthly gain, according to Wardsauto.com.

American Trucking Associations has agreed to give step van drivers a permanent spot in the National Truck Driving Championships.

Trucking companies finally gained some traction in 2010 as the economy stabilized and demand for freight hauling increased.

The trucking industry these days can be likened to the proverbial watchful child lurking at the top of the staircase, glancing to see if Santa already has deposited the presents under the tree.

Recent surveys of carriers and shippers are signaling that slower freight demand growth and continued capacity constraints will be common phrases within the trucking industry during 2011.

What started in 1992 as a project to honor veterans by laying 5,000 holiday wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery has grown to more than 200,000 wreaths and 100,000 volunteers, including a convoy of tractor-trailers that earlier this month carried donated wreaths to more than 500 burial sites for veterans in every state, Puerto Rico and 24 cemeteries on foreign soil.

The National Industrial Transportation League expressed “profound disappointment” over an investigation by the Federal Maritime Commission into numerous U.S. importer and exporter complaints of “perceived malpractices” by ocean carriers that caused supply-chain service disruptions and rate and surcharge increases from in 2009 and 2010.

FedEx Corp.’s earnings fell 18% in the company’s fiscal second quarter to $283 million, reflecting one-time charges that included integration costs at the FedEx Freight less-than-truckload unit.

U.S. retail motor fuel prices continued to climb last week as both diesel and gasoline reached two-year highs, the Department of Energy said.