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Canadian transportation firm Mullen Group’s first-quarter profit rose on higher demand at its oilfield services and trucking and logistics units.

American Trucking Associations urged members of the upcoming House-Senate highway-bill conference to include a mandate for electronic onboard recorders, in order to help drivers and carriers meet federal hours-of-service mandates.

In this age of distracted driving and new federal rules, fleet operators face a heightened challenge: How can they know and control what is happening in the cabs of their trucks? Ignorance could be expensive and dangerous.

Initial jobless claims declined last week, but the previous week’s claims were revised upward, the Labor Department said Thursday.

Bay Grove Capital said it is combining the operations of five refrigerated warehousing companies acquired over the past three years under the name Lineage Logistics.

Covenant Transportation Group reported a first-quarter loss of $640,000, or 4 cents per share, compared with a loss of $2.5 million, or 17 cents, a year earlier.

Truckload carrier P.A.M. Transportation Services on Wednesday reported a first-quarter profit for the first time in five years.