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Truck tonnage rose 4.1% in July, extending the streak of consecutive year-over-year increases to 32, American Trucking Associations reported last week.

Truck and trailer parts supplier FleetPride Inc. , said it has acquired Great Lakes Truck & Trailer, Westlake, Mich., for an undisclosed sum.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood launched the Freight Policy Council, a group tasked with generating a national freight policy, as called for in the new highway funding law.

Oil held over $96 a barrel in early trading Friday as forecasters kept an eye on Tropical Storm Isaac, which is likely to move into the Gulf of Mexico next week as a low-level hurricane, Bloomberg reported.

The Utah Trucking Association has selected former Utah Department of Transportation official Rick Clasby to be its new executive director.

Durable goods orders rose in July but declined excluding transportation orders, the Commerce Department said Friday.

Sixteen local governments on or near Interstate 95 in Virginia have come out in opposition to the state’s plan to impose tolls on I-95, a group opposing the plan said.

Mack Trucks said its defense division will supply the U.S. Army with 100 Mack Granite trucks destined for Iraq.

Chinese government regulators have approved a joint engine-making venture between Navistar International Corp. and Chinese truck maker Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Co. Ltd., Navistar said.