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Officials at the Port of Los Angeles are crediting their clean trucks program for significantly lowering diesel emissions in 2009.

Navistar International Corp. more than doubled its net income during the three months ended April 30, even though the company’s second fiscal-quarter revenue dipped, compared with the same time last year.

Allied Systems Holdings and the Teamsters union are clashing over the possible reversal of a 17.5% pay cut the union agreed to three years ago when the car hauler emerged from bankruptcy.

The Senate Commerce Committee last week approved a bill aimed at encouraging states to pass their own distracted driving laws, sending the measure to the Senate floor.

LANDOVER, Md. — Their hands covered with black grease, inspectors spent hours on their backs under truck chassis, listened for air leaks in brake lines and squinted over countless driver certifications at Roadcheck this year.

New Class 8 truck orders shot up significantly in May from a year earlier, although they were down slightly from April, two independent research firms reported.

Stephen Neal, chief executive officer of K. Neal International Trucks Inc., said June 4 was “quite a day” for his Hyattsville, Md., dealership. After all, it’s not every day that the commander-in-chief drops in to walk the showroom and discuss the nation’s economic recovery.

WASHINGTON — Carriers will have difficulty expanding capacity cut last year after manufacturers and retailers slashed spending for transportation services, the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals said last week.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has proposed reducing the amount of evidence fleets must maintain in order to verify their drivers’ hours-of-service logbooks.

Flatbed trucking, which has been battered by declines in manufacturing and construction during the recession, is finally showing sustained signs of improvement, with better volumes leading to freight-rate increases, carriers and their shippers have said.