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The Washington state House passed a measure that would require that 2% of the state’s diesel sales to be biodiesel by Dec. 1, 2008, the Associated Press reported.

Business inventories rose for a fifth straight month in December, and business sales rose by the most in a year, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.

Tire maker Michelin’s second-half 2005 profit rose 74% to about $600 million from $340 million a year earlier, Bloomberg reported.

Dupre’ Transport said it has promoted Tom Voelkel to be its president and chief operating officer.

The trucking industry has already spent $8.8 million in idle-reduction technologies, and over the next five years will spend at least $56 million more to further deploy such systems, according to a new report by the American Transportation Research Institute.

Cummins Says ’07 Engine Line Will be EPA-Compliant • TMC Technology Exhibit to Include 250 Exhibitors • AirIq Alters Credit Pact With Its Bank • Repair Info Database Tractor-Trailer.net Is Now Online

Schneider National’s logistics unit said Monday it has signed a stock purchase agreement to acquire American Overseas Air Freight, an international freight forwarder and a customs broker.

Flatbed carrier Smithway Motor Xpress Corp. said Monday that its fourth-quarter profit almost doubled, jumping 95% to $755,000 or 15 cents a share, from $387,000 or 8 cents a year earlier.

Truckload carrier U.S. Xpress Enterprises said Monday it has reached agreements in principle to increase its ownership interest in Arnold Transportation Services and Total Transportation of Mississippi to 80%, from 49%, for $7.8 million in cash.

Truckload carrier Knight Transportation said late Friday that Richard Lehmann has been elected as a director and that Timothy Kohl, a director and the president of Knight Transportation, stepped down from the company’s board.