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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Permanent repair kits for defective ATR-6 traction-relay brake valves are moving to truck makers, executives of Bendix Commercial Vehicle System said.

In the latest case of a freight broker being found liable for the acts of a third party, Heyl Logistics Inc. has been found guilty of negligence in a 2008 fatal accident.

Surface transportation trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico rose 14.3% last year from 2010, the Department of Transportation said Wednesday.

P.A.M. Transportation Services said its board of directors has approved a special dividend of $1 per share.

Federal regulators have bowed to anti-truck groups and unfairly called into question the integrity of police accident reports by delaying development of a process that could remove unpreventable crashes from carriers’ safety records, American Trucking Associations officials said Tuesday.

Gene Scoggins, president of the NationaLease truck-leasing organization, is retiring after 37 years in the transportation industry.

Prime Inc. President Robert Low puts his commitment to improving truckers’ health on the line at lunchtime, playing full-court basketball with co-workers.

Consumer confidence decreased this month, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.

Manufacturing activity in the New York region expanded in March at the fastest rate since June 2010, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Thursday.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will delay its plans to implement a much-anticipated Compliance, Safety, Accountability program process that would have allowed carriers to seek an accountability review of crashes that went on their safety records, a top American Trucking Associations safety executive said.