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Canadian transportation and logistics firm TransForce Income Fund reported Wednesday that its second-quarter net income was $23.7 million or 39 cents a share, compared with $16.6 million or 29 cents a year earlier.

General Motors Corp. reported Wednesday it had a net loss of $286 million or 51 cents a share in the second quarter, compared with a profit of $1.38 billion or $2.42 a share a year earlier.

Hurricane Emily slammed into northeastern Mexico and the U.S. border area early Wednesday, forcing thousands of people to evacuate and threatening mudslides, news services reported.

Heavy-duty component supplier Dana Corp. said Wednesday its net income fell to $51 million or 34 cents a share, from $110 million or 73 cents a year earlier.

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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he Michigan State Police said it would increase the monitoring of trucks on its roads in an attempt to reduce the number of crashes.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>Safety professionals for years have examined crash data and worked to reduce crash frequency on the long-held belief that frequency creates severity.

Rush Enterprises Inc., the nation’s largest dealer of Peterbilt Motors trucks, reported second-quarter net income of $11.2 million or 45 cents a share, up from $4.1 million or 26 cents per share in the same quarter last year.

Crude oil prices fell to their lowest level in two weeks following positive inventory reports from the Department of Energy that supplies were holding strong.

The average U.S. retail price of diesel fuel fell 1.6 cents to $2.392 a gallon, the Department of Energy reported Monday, and gasoline also fell off its record set a week earlier.