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Preliminary data released by the Department of Transportation show that fatalities from large truck crashes declined 3.7% last year compared with 2005.

Truckload carrier Knight Transportation said Tuesday its board raised the company’s quarterly cash dividend, declaring a dividend of 3 cents per share, an increase of 50%.

California has asked U.S. regulators for permission to set its own environmental rules for reducing global warming emissions from passenger vehicles, Bloomberg reported.

Covenant Transport said Wednesday its stockholders approved a name change to the truckload carrier’s corporation to Covenant Transportation Group Inc.

Brent Jones first got word March 27 that his trucking company’s name was being used as part of a freight load board fraud scheme.

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Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) has urged Congress to tighten U.S. rail-safety rules, citing CSX Corp. derailments and other accidents in her state since December, Bloomberg reported.

A Senate proposal that would set fuel-economy standards for heavy- and medium-duty trucks conflicts with a current push to reduce engine emissions and would not work without additional research, representatives of the truck manufacturing industry said.

Sales of new Class 8 trucks plunged 45% in April, compared with a year earlier, the most severe decline in six years.