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The ongoing dispute between the U.S. and Mexico over cross-border trucking is expected to be on the agenda when leaders of the two countries meet Wednesday in Washington.

The Canadian Trucking Alliance is asking that its federal government abandon a plan to adopt a 2% biodiesel mandate for all diesel fuel sold in the country.

For the first time since its founding nearly a century ago, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is seeking private investors to help it replace one of its facilities  — the aged Goethals Bridge that connects the New Jersey Turnpike to Staten Island and other points in New York.

Manufacturing activity in the New York region rose for the 10th consecutive month in May but expanded at a slower rate than April, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Monday.

General Motors Co. said Monday it earned $865 million in the first quarter, its first quarterly profit since 2007.

President Obama will nominate FBI Deputy Director John Pistole to head the Transportation Security Administration, the White House said Monday.

Penske Truck Leasing Co. said that it has ordered 750 new Freightliner Cascadia tractors and 600 VN670 tractors from Volvo Trucks North America, all with 2010 selective catalytic reduction emissions technology, partially because of growing freight demand.

Agents of the California Air Resources Board have fanned out to ticket truck operators who fail to comply with the state’s complicated schedule for reducing emissions from the small diesel engines that power transport refrigeration.

The Department of Transportation said last week that it expects to publish in mid-December its follow-up proposal to require more fleets to use electronic onboard recorders.