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The Transportation Intermediaries Association said Monday it has unveiled a model broker-carrier contract to promote best practices between brokers and carriers.

Several executives with small fleets said they’re expanding their use of onboard tracking systems to help minimize fuel costs and monitor tractor and trailer assets.

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The Environmental Protection Agency’s deadline for U.S. fuel refiners to begin making ultra-low-sulfur diesel was June 1, but not all refiners said they would make the fuel immediately.

Navistar International Corp., which has not issued earnings statements since September, said Friday that an internal audit found no evidence of fraud and said it plans to file an annual report for this fiscal year by January 2007.

Transportation and third-party logistics firm Pacer International said Thursday it had promoted Tom Shurstad to be its new president.

U.S. payrolls rose by 75,000 in May and the unemployment rate inched down to 4.6%, the Labor Department reported Friday.

U.S. factory orders fell 1.8% in April, the Commerce Department reported Friday.

OPEC ministers meeting in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday agreed to keep production quotas unchanged at a record high level in an effort to ease prices, Bloomberg reported.

The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index slowed in May, the group said Thursday.