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Canada-based transportation firm Trimac Income Fund’s third-quarter net earnings improved to C$7.6 million, or 24 cents per unit, from C$5.7 million, or 19 cents, a year ago.

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The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada has agreed to transfer ownership of five Las Vegas public compressed natural gas fueling stations to Clean Energy Fuels Corp., Clean Energy said Friday.

Prodded by soaring fuel prices and the contracting economy, shippers have spent most of 2008 trying to pare transportation spending to meet demands by company executives looking for antidotes to stagnant revenue growth.

Barack Obama’s election as president last week could lead to more transportation spending, but at the cost to trucking of more stringent regulations and White House support for labor legislation unfavorable to business, industry officials said.

Transportation software firm Xata Corp. said Thursday it lost $373,000, or 5 cents a share, in its fiscal fourth quarter, compared with a loss of $4.5 million, or 57 cents, a year ago.

Canadian transportation firm Mullen Group Income Fund said Thursday its third-quarter profit slipped to C$36.2 million, from C$38 million a year ago, while earnings per unit held at 45 cents.

Third-quarter U.S. worker productivity rose 1.1% in the third quarter, the Labor Department said Thursday.