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U.S. Class 8 truck sales climbed 23.5% in August from year-ago levels, pushing sales for the first eight months of 2010 to 16.5% higher than last year’s results for the comparable period, WardsAuto.com reported.

Air quality agencies tasked with reducing pollution in Southern California cannot impose emissions limits on idling trains, a federal appeals court ruled.

A federal judge has issued a final order that will allow the Port of Los Angeles to begin implementation of its employee-only clean trucks plan.

Consumer confidence declined this month, according to the latest Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan monthly consumer sentiment index released Friday.

The consumer price index rose by 0.3% for a second straight month in August, the Labor Department said Friday.

Logistics and delivery firm Dynamex Inc.’s fiscal fourth-quarter profit grew to $2.8 million, or 28 cents a share, from $1.8 million, or 18 cents, a year ago.

The trucking industry seems to operate primarily in a boom or bust cycle. Rarely, it seems, are things stable for very long.

UPS Inc. has launched a new ocean shipping service from Asia to the United for less-than-container loads it said will be 20% faster.

Manufacturing levels in the Philadelphia region showed contraction for the second consecutive month, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said Thursday.