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Logistics firm US 1 Industries said its third-quarter profit improved on higher load activity.

Trailer Bridge Inc.’s third-quarter income fell to $6,876, or zero cents per share, from $1.7 million, or 14 cents, a year ago.

Prices paid to U.S. producers rose 0.4% in October, the Labor Department said Tuesday.

P.A.M. Transportation Services said it has received authorization from Mexico’s Department of Economy to establish a network of offices in that country as “key markets” in which it plans to expand.

FedEx Corp. has joined utilities, vehicle manufacturers and other companies in pushing for a tax credit for fleets that buy electric vehicles, Bloomberg reported.

European truck makers Scania AB and MAN SE are considering a joint effort to make commercial vehicles and potentially become Europe’s largest truck maker, Bloomberg reported Monday.

Heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. said Monday it will buy a mining equipment company in a deal valued at more than $8 billion.

Business inventories rose 0.9% in September, the Commerce Department said Monday.

Manufacturing activity in the New York region contracted this month, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Monday.