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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality said it would make more money available to the state’s truck retrofit program, after the Texas Legislature approved $5 million in additional funding for idle-reduction technologies.

The Chicago Agency for Metropolitan Planning said the city should adopt an on-road diesel fleet retrofit project, which would provide up to $1 million for emission-reducing technology.

The Virginia Department of Transportation said Aug. 1 it has updated its 511 road-information system to include improvements suggested by users.

Oregon has become the fifth state to enact a biodiesel requirement and the first to require strict testing of the fuel.

American Trucking Associations said it is bringing back its Information Technology and Logistics Council to meet a growing demand by ATA carrier members seeking technical and educational opportunities for their IT, logistics and operations managers.

U.S. business inventories rose 0.4% in June, while sales fell, the Commerce Department said Monday.

U.S. business inventories rose 0.4% in June, while sales fell, the Commerce Department said Monday.

Trailer Bridge Inc. said Monday that its first Triplestack Box Carrier vessel on its inaugural voyage to the Dominican Republic and that it has expanded service to Puerto Rico.

Overall intermodal volumes for the second quarter of 2007 fell to 3.35 million units from last year’s level of 3.58 million units, the Intermodal Association of North America said.

The price of goods imported to the United States rose for a sixth straight month in July, on higher oil costs, the Labor Department reported Friday.