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Ron Tepper has completed a buyback of shares in Consolidated Fastfrate Inc. from Fenway Partners, a New York-based investment firm that purchased a 75% stake in the company in 2007.

Red Hook Container Terminal in Newark, N.J., is the latest to kick chassis off its property to free up space to store containers due to the growth of larger vessels traveling through the Panama Canal.

XL Hybrids Inc. won $22 million in venture capital funding led by units of Exelon Corp. and Ikea Group to accelerate sales of its hybrid-electric delivery trucks.

Container traffic continues to flourish in the peak shipping season, easily outpacing last year’s totals in September.

The Federal Highway Administration is considering revising its definition of automobile transporters to allow more flexibility in the type of trailers used to haul vehicles.

Wall Street analysts expect truckload carriers to report mixed third-quarter earnings, despite a boost in business related to hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta are among the speakers who will address key industry issues at American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition on Oct. 21-25 in Orlando, Fla.

California took another step Oct. 11 toward permitting testing of self-driving vehicles without a human driver, continuing a shift away from previous policies that companies criticized as being overly restrictive.

Truck platooning — also known by the more precise but less compelling term “cooperative adaptive cruise control” — will soon become available to trucking fleets interested in testing the latest in fuel-saving technology.