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Transportation software firm Xata Corp. said Thursday it lost $4.5 million, or 57 cents a share, in its fiscal fourth quarter, compared with a loss of $498,000, or 7 cents, a year ago.

Mayor Martin Chavez has appointed a task force to study how effectively Albuquerque’s red-light cameras are reducing the number of traffic crashes, the Associated Press reported.

The Canadian Trucking Alliance said it is asking all the major North American heavy truck manufacturers to make anti-rollover technology standard equipment in their new vehicle packages.

Canadian transportation firm TransForce Income Fund said it will acquire Thibodeau Group of Companies, a less-than-truckload and truckload carrier based in Quebec.

DHL Worldwide Express, part of Germany’s Deutsche Post AG, said it will build a $175 million cargo hub in Shanghai to help the parcel courier accommodate growing trade in Northern Asia, Bloomberg News reported Monday.

Ramey Peru, chief financial officer of truckload carrier Swift Transportation, will resign from his position effective Dec. 31, the carrier said.

Mark Zaluski was one of the lucky ones. At 3:10 p.m. on Oct. 25, his rig occupied one of only 16 truck parking spaces on the north side of a travel plaza off Interstate 94 about 40 miles north of Chicago.

Performance Transportation Services, a Wayne, Mich., auto transporter, said it, along with certain subsidiaries, will file for chapter 11 bankruptcy as part of a $67 million deal to sell nearly all of its assets to Allied Systems Holdings.

John Ficker, president of the National Industrial Transportation League, will step down at the end of November, NITL said Monday.

The value of U.S. Freight Shipments to Canada and Mexico in 2006 rose to a record $866 billion from $790 billion in 2005, the Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics said Monday.