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Business inventories rose 0.8% in October while sales increased, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.

Volvo Trucks in North America announced on Monday that it will now offer its Bluetooth-equipped radio as standard equipment on all VN and VHD models.

Some shippers are pushing for higher truck weight limits, following moves by Maine and Vermont to allow oversize loads, Bloomberg reported.

Protesters from the Occupy movement marched on West Coast ports including in Oakland and Long Beach, Calif., Monday, in an effort to shut down the facilities, news reports said.

The vision is to have almost every truck equipped with shore-power-friendly systems and to have ubiquitous shore power so that anywhere truckers think about idling for any length of time, they have an alternative.

Volvo AB named Carl-Henric Svanberg its new chairman, Bloomberg reported Monday.

Oil fell to near $98 a barrel in early trading Monday on the New York Mercantile Exchange, a two-week low, Bloomberg reported.

TOKYO — Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corp. is developing a diesel-electric hybrid powertrain for parent Daimler AG’s truck group that could provide the fuel economy gains that have so far been elusive for heavy-duty, over-the-road trucks, the company said.