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MGM Transport Corp. has been acquired by private-equity firm CF Holding Co. for an undisclosed sum, the Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area, in North Carolina, reported last week.

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed reducing the amount of ozone in the air, which trucking industry and manufacturing officials said could lead to retrofits of older trucks.

Trucking companies, owner-operators and shippers at the Port of Oakland, Calif., and Oakland’s World Trade Center will be able to track freight using Global Positioning System technology starting in about six months.

This week’s issue of Transport Topics is the last one that will be produced at 2200 Mill Road in Alexandria, Va., the headquarters of American Trucking Associations, our owner, for almost 24 years.

U.S. factory orders fell 0.5% in May, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.

Truckload carrier Werner Enterprises said late Monday it has become a validated member in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, or C-TPAT, federal cross-border trade program.

Machinists for Freightliner Trucks in Portland, Ore., went on strike Tuesday morning over insurance and overtime provisions in a proposed labor contract, the Oregonian newspaper reported.

The Ontario government will introduce legislation this fall to adopt a proposal put forward by the Ontario Trucking Association almost two years ago to make 65-mph speed limiters on trucks mandatory, OTA said last week.

European Union regulators have approved private-equity firm Cerberus Capital Management’s plan to buy DaimlerChrysler’s Chrysler division for $7.5 billion, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.