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Ford Motor Co. reported a $5.8 billion or $3.08 per-share third-quarter loss Monday, its largest loss in more than 13 years.

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Gasoline prices fell 8 cents in the past two weeks to $2.20 a gallon, according to the latest Lundberg Survey of filling stations released Sunday.

California’s Superior Court last week overturned a state regulation that required all trucks with 1993 to 1998 model-year engines operating in the state to be reprogrammed to include more stringent emission controls.

Mack Trucks will lay off about 450 workers at its Macungie, Pa., truck assembly plant, the manufacturer announced Friday.

Private equity groups Cevian Capital AB and Parvus Asset Management have formed a joint venture company to hold their separate stakes in Swedish truck maker Volvo AB, Bloomberg reported Friday.

In my studies of fuel measurement and dispensing, I found that the thermal coefficient of expansion of fuel is about 0.5% per 10 degrees Fahrenheit. Thus, a gallon of fuel dispensed at 80 degrees will weigh approximately 1% less than a gallon dispensed at 60 degrees and therefore provide about 1% less chemical energy to the engine.

Crude oil futures on Friday fell to a new low for the year, closing below $57 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange among doubts that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would follow through with promised production cuts, Bloomberg reported.

Diesel engine and heavy-equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc. reported its third-quarter profit rose but cut its sales forecast for next year, causing the biggest drop in its stock price in 19 years, Bloomberg reported Friday.

American Trucking Associations on Friday petitioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to require that all new heavy-duty trucks be built with speed limit-ers that allow the vehicles to travel no faster than 68 miles-per-hour.