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Logistics firm Expeditors International of Washington’s third-quarter profit jumped to $96.1 million, or 44 cents a share, from $57.8 million, or 27 cents, a year ago, a per-share gain of 63%.

Only about 20% of the 9 billion pounds of air cargo that comes to the United States from overseas each year is physically checked for bombs, USA Today reported Tuesday.

As freight markets rebound, the winning carrier will be the one that outsells its peer group in the growth and retention of profitable business — a goal best achieved by improving the company’s sales process.

ABF Freight System said it filed legal actions Monday against units of YRC Worldwide and the Teamsters union for what it said were violations of the National Master Freight Agreement collective bargaining agreement that covers most U.S. unionized trucking employees.

The Teamsters union’s rank-and-file membership at YRC Worldwide ratified a new labor agreement to run through 2015 it said is aimed at saving 25,000 jobs at the less-than-truckload carrier.

Wabco Holdings said it earned a profit of $44 million, or 66 cents a share in the third quarter, compared with a loss of $33.8 million, or 52 cents, a year ago.

The Obama administration last week proposed the first-ever regulations to set commercial truck fuel-efficiency and carbon-emission standards.

Navistar International Corp. employees represented by the United Auto Workers union approved a new four-year contract, the company said.