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Commercial vehicle component maker Accuride Corp. said Thursday it lost $201.2 million, or $5.67 per share, in the third quarter, compared with a loss of $1.9 million, or 5 cents, a year ago.

Initial jobless claims slipped last week to 481,000, from a revised 485,000 the previous week, the Labor Department said Thursday.

Transportation software firm Xata Corp. said Thursday it lost $373,000, or 5 cents a share, in its fiscal fourth quarter, compared with a loss of $4.5 million, or 57 cents, a year ago.

Canadian transportation firm Mullen Group Income Fund said Thursday its third-quarter profit slipped to C$36.2 million, from C$38 million a year ago, while earnings per unit held at 45 cents.

Third-quarter U.S. worker productivity rose 1.1% in the third quarter, the Labor Department said Thursday.

Express-1 Expedited Solutions said Thursday its third-quarter income jumped to $1.16 million, or 4 cents a share, from $500,000, or 2 cents, a year ago.

Trucking firms and agriculture interests, along with the City of Toledo, Ohio, are protesting a big hike in state fees for overweight vehicles, the Toledo Blade newspaper reported Wednesday.

The letter writer who commented on less-than-truckload reweighing in the Oct. 13 issue of Transport Topics  has led a sheltered experience in the trucking industry.

The U.S. economy’s service sector declined in October, the Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday.