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Engine and heavy-equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc.’s first-quarter profit jumped 45% to $840 million or $1.20 a share, from $581 million or 81 cents a year ago, it reported Monday.

The average national price of self-serve regular gasoline jumped 24 cents to $2.91 a gallon in the two weeks ended Friday, according to the latest Lundberg Survey of filling stations released Sunday.

The American Truck Dealers division of the National Automobile Dealers Association named Robert Hunter as its 2006 Dealer of the Year at the ATD annual convention and exhibition in Atlanta, Saturday through Monday.

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More cross-border carriers are getting ready to file electronic manifests before the U.S. Customs and Border Protection makes such filing mandatory as early as August.

Less-than-truckload carrier YRC Worldwide late Monday reported its first-quarter earnings fell to $42.1 million or 71 cents a share, from $49.9 million or 96 cents in the same quarter last year.

YRC Worldwide Friday said its board approved a stock repurchase program authorizing the company to repurchase up to $100 million of its common stock.

SCS Transportation said late Thursday it earned $2.4 million or 16 cents in the first quarter, down from $4 million or 26 cents a year earlier.

Truckload carrier Heartland Express late Thursday declared a 4-for-3 stock split, payable as a 33% stock dividend as of May 15.

General Motors Corp. reported a narrower first-quarter loss than last year and beat analysts’ estimates pulling in record revenue, Bloomberg reported.