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Truckload hauler Gordon Trucking said it has acquired Buske Lines, Edwardsville, Ill.

LinkAmerica Corp., a Tulsa, Okla., trucking and logistics company, has named John Simone its new CEO.

A study of pricing practices by less-than-truckload carriers has found broad-based support for changes among carriers, shippers and logistics companies in the way rates are set, but no consensus on what those changes should be or how to implement them.

Robert Windsor Jr., former president of Hahn Transportation Inc., New Market, Md., died Aug. 16 following a short illness. He was 85.

American Trucking Associations said the federal government’s proposed 2012-2013 renewable fuel standards could become “a new billion-dollar hidden tax on the trucking industry” because Congress is unlikely to continue underwriting biodiesel’s production costs.

Truck and engine makers last week outlined some of the engineering innovations they will have to develop and put onto highways over the next six years to meet recently unveiled federal heavy-truck greenhouse-gas regulations.

NAPA, Calif. — North America’s largest heavy-duty truck maker is struggling to find the parts necessary to build all the trucks it has agreed to supply to fleets during 2011, and has had to turn down “thousands” of orders, according to a senior company official.

PeopleNet Communications Corp. told customers here its current mobile computers will likely be able to meet the government’s electronic onboard recorder requirements without hardware changes.

California’s attorney general announced a settlement last week with seven Southern California port terminal operators to resolve the state’s claims that residents near the ports were exposed to dangerous levels of diesel exhaust from the terminals.

The national average price of diesel fuel declined for a third straight week, dipping 6.2 cents to an almost six-month low of $3.835 a gallon, according to the Department of Energy.