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Pilot Freight Services, a transportation and logistics services provider, said that it has opened its first European location in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Truck component supplier Meritor Inc. rearranged its executive positions in the wake of the departure of Chief Operating Officer Carsten Reinhardt, who left the Troy, Mich., manufacturer last week.

Six of seven publicly traded large truckload carriers delivered strong second-quarter profit increases last week, as capacity constraints helped to boost rates and margins.

YRC Worldwide Inc. expects to earn its first profit from operations since 2007 in the second half of 2011, the less-than-truckload carrier said.

Bidding to expand in the freight transportation and logistics markets, software maker Trimble Navigation Ltd. announced July 20 that it is acquiring privately held PeopleNet Communications Corp., the Minnetonka, Minn., provider of motor carrier on-board computing and mobile communications systems.

WASHINGTON — Leaders of a key U.S. Senate committee said bipartisan support for their two-year transportation reauthorization plan is growing, although they have yet to introduce a bill.

A group advocating for higher federal truck weight limits pushed back last week against what it called “misinformation” about legislation it endorses.

Tom Linebarger, who will become Cummins Inc.’s next chairman and CEO on Jan. 1, said the company is well positioned to meet the competition of North American truck makers offering “vertically integrated” packages of their own trucks and engines.

Perhaps your company already has explored myriad ways to reduce the cost of on-road fuel. But have you considered hedging the cost of your on-road fuel?

I am writing regarding my opposition to the recent bill in Congress to raise broker surety bonds to $100,000 (“Bill Would Mandate Bond of $100,000 for Brokers,” 7-4, p. 3).