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

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.

YRC Worldwide said it has reached a new cost-cutting agreement with the Teamsters union and hired a financial adviser to work with key lenders as part of a broad effort to boost the carrier’s cash position.

Truck and engine manufacturer Navistar Inc. has accused the Environmental Protection Agency of attempting to remove documents from official records and allowing the Engine Manufacturers Association to write the draft of its selective catalytic reduction guidance document for 2010 “in secret collaboration with certain engine makers.”

The Senate last week kicked off debate on an energy bill that includes a controversial cap-and-trade provision to limit carbon emissions, summoning four top Obama administration officials to testify before the committee that will craft the Senate version of climate change and energy policy legislation.

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.”

WASHINGTON — Debbie Hersman, President Obama’s choice to lead the National Transportation Safety Board, told a Senate committee that other transportation agencies should voluntarily adopt the board’s recommendations, and if they don’t, Congress should order them to.

Gregory Nadeau, a former official with the Maine Department of Transportation, was appointed deputy administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced July 1.

Diesel prices dipped slightly for the second week in a row but, according to truckers and analysts, have yet to reflect the full effect of falling crude oil prices, record diesel surpluses and one of the worst freight recessions in trucking history.