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Manufacturing activity in the Chicago area contracted for the first time in three years, the Institute for Supply Management-Chicago said Friday.

Celadon Trucking Services said it has agreed to buy operating assets of Ohio truckload carrier Robinson Transport.

Personal spending rose 0.5% in August, the Commerce Department said Friday.

TOOELE, Utah — Navistar’s choice of exhaust gas recirculation over selective catalytic reduction to comply with U.S. emissions rules failed not because of the technology, but because the company had no partners in the effort, said Jim Hebe, Navistar’s senior vice president for North America Sales Operations.

UPS Inc. last week began contract talks with the Teamsters union, while the company awaited additional developments in its planned $6.7 billion purchase of TNT Express N.V., its largest-ever planned acquisition.

Stronger oversight and better assessments are needed to determine if the TIGER grant program is producing its expected benefits, a report from the Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General said.

Trailer orders rose 15% in August from a year earlier, ACT Research reported, reversing a recent pattern of decline and fueling hope that the traditionally strong fourth quarter order pace will occur again this year.

J.R. “Bob” Halladay, a longtime trucking leader who formerly served as senior vice president for federation relations for American Trucking Associations, died last week at the age of 91 after complications from a stroke and Parkinson’s disease.

ORLANDO, Fla. — TMW Systems Inc. is expanding the capabilities of its transportation management software to the evolving needs of today’s transportation providers, CEO David Wangler said.

PORTLAND, Maine — The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board urged commercial vehicle inspectors meeting here to look for patterns of motor carrier safety violations that could lead to fatal crashes.