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Patriot Transportation Holding reported net income of $1.7 million or 56 cents a share for its fiscal second quarter ended March 31, up from $1.6 million or 52 cents a year earlier.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson has launched a task force to review so-called “boutique fuels” used across the county, the agency said late Thursday.

Robert Low, president of refrigerated carrier Prime Inc., said he had a good reason for shipping a recent package from Arkansas to Kentucky by air, rather than over the road.

A group of cigarette distributors sued New York state Wednesday seeking to overturn a law banning Internet, telephone and mail-order tobacco sales, the Associated Press reported.

The number of U.S. workers filing initial unemployment claims rose by 5,000 to 322,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday.

Publicly traded less-than-truckload carriers told of a softening LTL rate environment in their first-quarter reports, saying they had succeeded in getting fuel surcharges to stick, but were not able to boost freight rates significantly beyond that.

Logistics firm Jacobson Cos. has acquired Wilpak Inc., a package design and logistics company, the financial firm that helped facilitate the deal said. Terms were not released.

Logistics firm Expeditors International of Washington said it will undertake a 2-for-1 stock split and reported a first-quarter profit of $52.4 million or 47 cents a share, up from $30.9 million or 28 cents in the previous fourth quarter.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. reported net first-quarter earnings of $74 million or 37 cents a share, up from $68 million or 35 cents last year.

The United Auto Workers union has asked its members at bankrupt auto-parts supplier Delphi Corp. to hold a strike vote by May 14, Bloomberg reported.