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Barack Obama’s election as president last week could lead to more transportation spending, but at the cost to trucking of more stringent regulations and White House support for labor legislation unfavorable to business, industry officials said.

Transportation software firm Xata Corp. said Thursday it lost $373,000, or 5 cents a share, in its fiscal fourth quarter, compared with a loss of $4.5 million, or 57 cents, a year ago.

Canadian transportation firm Mullen Group Income Fund said Thursday its third-quarter profit slipped to C$36.2 million, from C$38 million a year ago, while earnings per unit held at 45 cents.

Third-quarter U.S. worker productivity rose 1.1% in the third quarter, the Labor Department said Thursday.

The letter writer who commented on less-than-truckload reweighing in the Oct. 13 issue of Transport Topics  has led a sheltered experience in the trucking industry.

The U.S. economy’s service sector declined in October, the Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday.

Logistics firm Expeditors International of Washington said its third-quarter net income rose 15% to $85.5 million, or 39 cents a share, from $74.3 million, or 34 cents, a year ago.

Canadian transportation firm TransForce Inc. said its third-quarter net income slipped to C$26.5 million, or 31 cents per unit, from C$28.5 million, or 33 cents, a year ago.