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Navistar International Corp., the largest maker of blast-proof trucks for the U.S. military, will lay off 275 workers at a Mississippi plant because of declining production of the vehicles, Bloomberg reported Monday.

P.A.M. Transportation Services Monday named Daniel Cushman its new president, replacing long-time president Robert Weaver.

Navman Wireless has added truck-specific routing to the M-Nav 750, the latest incarnation of the Glenview, Ill., company’s handheld GPS unit for fleet users.

The Department of Transportation has approved a $386 million loan to finance construction on the Triangle Expressway in North Carolina.

Logistics firm Expeditors International of Washington said Monday its second-quarter earnings will likely be 24 cents to 26 cents per share, down from 32 cents a year ago.

In normal financial times, banks usually turn down 95% of all loan requests. During today’s difficult times, banks are just not making loans — especially to new clients. So, what should you do: Give up, or go the route that can keep your business prospering and even growing?

At a time when good news in the trucking industry is hard to come by, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration served up a generous helping of it last week when it said that truck-related highway fatalities plummeted 12% last year.

Truck finance executives said recent credit activity indicates financial improvement in trucking, although they saw no signs of a truck sales recovery, while separately, market researcher R.L. Polk & Co. said new truck registrations are likely to hit bottom this year.

The European Union last week imposed tariffs on biodiesel imported from the United States to counter low prices it said were caused by subsidies, but a spokesman for the U.S. Trade Representative denied subsidies were the main reason for the growth of U.S. sales in Europe and that the United States would review the tariffs “closely.”