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U.S. corporate profits rose 13.5% in the fourth quarter, buoyed by steady economic growth, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Navistar International Corp. said late Thursday that supply constraints would not result in excessive inventory in its second fiscal quarter which ends April 30 and should have no impact on the company’s full-year earnings.

Volvo Trucks North America said Thursday that the company and the United Auto Workers had reached a tentative agreement on terms of new three-year agreements that would cover the 2,800 UAW members who work at the company's truck manufacturing plant in Dublin, Va.

Crude oil futures rose Thursday on reports of a potential "superspike" that could push prices to as high as $105 a barrel by 2007, news services reported.

Webb Wheel Products said it had reorganized its operations into separate business units, including original equipment manufacturers, aftermarket and the transit industry.

The Department of ���ϳԹ���land Security said Wednesday it will send more than 500 agents to patrol Arizona’s border with Mexico.

The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 3.8% in the fourth quarter, the Commerce Department said Wednesday in its final tally of the gross domestic product.

An Alabama state senator’s proposal to create a motorists’ hot line to report unsafe commercial vehicles has drawn criticism from trucking groups, which questioned the motive of the proposal.

Trucking industry representatives voiced concerns last week over the start of the government’s program to fingerprint hazardous materials drivers, but a federal official called the program “immensely successful.”

Transportation and logistics services company Segmentz Inc. reported late Wednesday it lost $2.2 million or 8 cents a share in the fourth quarter, compared with a profit of $51,000 or less than 1 cent a share a year earlier.