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Descartes Systems Group’s fiscal first-quarter net income rose to $2.2 million from $200,000.

The first formal association of international shippers, including the National Industrial Transportation League, has formed under the banner of the Global Shippers Forum to raise the profile of freight groups in an increasingly global marketplace.

Fed by the international economic recovery and a weak U.S. dollar, North American truck makers are enjoying a sharp upturn in sales of heavy-duty trucks to the rest of the world, particularly Central and South America, Africa, the Middle East and Australia.

A portion of the Highway Trust Fund would be dedicated exclusively to a national freight highway network under a bipartisan transportation reauthorization plan being drafted by four U.S. senators.

New technology and a changing business environment are having a profound effect on the way transportation services are bought and sold.

Insurance executives said they strongly support electronic logging but that use of the devices by truckers will not automatically lower fleets’ coverage expenses because carriers’ overall safety records dictate rates.

Commercial trailer producers received 19,579 new orders in April, a 71% jump from the same month last year, and the manufacturers’ backlog rose above 100,000 for the first time in the current recovery, ACT Research Co. said.

The clean-truck programs that began at West Coast ports are moving to the East Coast, as evidenced by grant awards this month to drayage truckers in the mid-Atlantic region who want to buy newer models.

The Teamsters union on June 1 announced a tentative contract agreement with vehicle hauling companies that employ an estimated 8,100 drivers, just hours after the previous contract expired.

Less-than-truckload carrier Roadrunner Transportation Systems said May 31 it had bought refrigerated carrier Bruenger Trucking Co. in a deal that could be worth up to $13.6 million.