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UPS Inc. said it has purchased 130 hybrid electric vehicles, which the package carrier will launch into service next year.

GRAPEVINE, Texas — An executive of Xata Corp. said the company’s plans for its phone-based tracking and logging system — Xata Turnpike — include pushing the unit into trucks that already have mobile communications hardware installed.

United Auto Workers employees at Navistar International Corp. remain on the job following Friday’s expiration of a contract between the two sides, news services reported.

Truck tonnage rose for the ninth consecutive month in August from year-ago levels, but the gain slowed to 2.9%, in line with the recent deceleration in the U.S. economy, American Trucking Associations reported.

Logistics and delivery firm Dynamex Inc. said Greenbriar Equity Group has agreed to buy it for about $210 million.

Factory orders excluding aircraft jumped 5.1% in August, the Commerce Department said Monday.

WASHINGTON — The new truck market is showing signs of picking up further this fall as the economy improves and the nation’s truck fleet continues to grow older, the head of Daimler Truck’s U.S. financial arm said.

Changes to the federal truck driver hours-of-service rule are among many issues trucking executives are likely to focus on when American Trucking Associations’ members gather in Phoenix for their annual meeting, the federation’s chief executive officer told Transport Topics.