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Bill Graves, president of American Trucking Associations, urged the Department of Transportation to quickly begin a rulemaking process that would mandate electronic logging devices on all trucks.

DUSSELDORF, Germany — Officials of Daimler Trucks AG said their line of Sprinter vans is back on the path to success in North America.

An analysis of crash data by the American Transportation Research Institute found that trucks equipped with roll stability control systems had fewer rollovers and less crash-related costs than trucks with more expensive electronic stability control systems.

H. Dean Cotten, the former president of the Mississippi Trucking Association and one of American Trucking Associations’ longest-serving state affiliate executives, died Aug. 13 at the age of 74 in Ridgeland, Miss.

MINNEAPOLIS — Xata Corp. announced last week it changed its name to XRS Corp. and unveiled its next-generation platform focused on mobile devices rather than hard-wired, on-board computers.

MINNEAPOLIS — Nevada Highway Patrol trooper Christopher Smithen admits he’s been feeling a little uncomfortable with the flood of compliments he’s received since being named the top commercial enforcement inspector in North America earlier this month.

U.S. retail heavy-duty truck sales rose 27.4% to 16,421 in July, continuing a 17-month trend of double-digit expansion, according to the latest survey from WardsAuto.com.

MINNEAPOLIS — Sometimes nice guys like Don Logan, a FedEx Freight driver based in Topeka, Kan., do finish first.

The price of diesel exhaust fluid at the pump at U.S. truck stops dropped significantly in July, following a similar decline for urea, the main ingredient in DEF.

U.S. retail diesel prices spiked 11.5 cents to $3.965 a gallon last week, the Department of Energy reported, the largest increase in 17 months. Experts attributed the gain to higher crude prices, falling inventories and a refinery fire.