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Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. said its third-quarter earnings fell to $17 million, or 27 cents a share, from $45 million, or 71 cents, a year ago.

Commercial Vehicle Group reported third-quarter income of $7.4 million, or 26 cents per share, up from to $1.1 million, or 4 cents, a year ago.

Commercial vehicle component manufacturer Accuride Corp. reported a third-quarter loss of $17.2 million, or 36 cents per share, compared with a profit of $30.8 million, or 8 cents, a year ago.

Frozen Food Express Industries said it will sell more than 400 dry vans and almost 300 tractors to truckload carrier Celadon Trucking Services.

Manufacturing activity in the Philadelphia region increased in October, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said Thursday.

Pete Selleck has assumed his posts of chairman and president of Michelin North America, succeeding Richard Wilkerson, who is retiring, the tire manufacturer said Monday.

A surge in tank truck business, spurred by oil and shale gas drilling, is fueling an “incredibly hot” market for tank trailers to haul crude oil, sand and related products, industry officials said.

Trailer manufacturers said they received 12,524 net orders in August, a 10% increase from a year ago, but below July’s level, ACT Research Co. reported last week.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Maintenance directors meeting here shared techniques for combating rust and other forms of corrosion, which they said are a plague to trucks.