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Cat Lift Trucks said that it has added five new electric counterbalanced and internal combustion pneumatic lift truck families to its current product lineup in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

A powerful earthquake off the shore of Northern California over the weekend caused no significant damage to the state’s transportation infrastructure, the Associated Press reported.

WASHINGTON — Anne Ferro, head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, told Transport Topics she hoped the agency will get a variety of points of view during its upcoming public hearings on hours-of-service.

A federal pilot project taking heavy trucks off Maine’s local routes is drawing cheers from residents along the roads the trucks used to travel.

Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood announced Tuesday the creation of FocusDriven, an organization dedicated to fighting distracted driving.

Gasoline’s national average price jumped 14 cents in the past three weeks to $2.74 a gallon, according to the latest Lundberg Survey of fuel prices released Sunday.

Automated vehicle tracking is now accessible to more fleets than ever before, as providers pack the technology into small — but powerful — hardware. However, economic and regulatory concerns are keeping older systems firmly entrenched in the trucking industry.

A class-action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of the 1,400 former employees of Arrow Trucking, the Tulsa, Okla., flatbed carrier that shut down abruptly last month.

Wholesale inventories rose 1.5% in November, the biggest gain in five years, the Commerce Department said Friday.