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U.S. truck sales fell 9.1% to 14,491 in September, declining for the first time since December 2009 and ending a streak of 32 consecutive year-over-year increases, WardsAuto.com reported.

The extensive overhaul of Navistar’s product and corporate lineup continued last week as top sales executive Jim Hebe retired, more details emerged about new models, and the company agreed to replace three directors to avoid a proxy battle.

Federal Highway Administration officials are not consistently meeting their congressionally mandated “stewardship and oversight” re­quirements to closely oversee billions of dollars in federal highway program grants to states, according to a new audit.

The gradual shift of intermodal equipment control from ocean carriers to truckers advanced last week as an industry group formally created a chassis cooperative and drayage carrier, IMC Companies, purchased 1,520 units for use in an existing pool.

Investor Carl Icahn on Thursday began a takeover bid for Oshkosh Corp. that is worth about $3 billion.

BNSF Railway’s intermodal container project in Southern California took a step forward late last month, when a revised environmental impact statement was issued that supports construction of the $500 million project.

Initial jobless claims decreased by 30,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday.

The U.S. trade deficit grew by 4.1% in August, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

ABF Freight and the Teamsters union announced they expect to begin negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement Dec. 18.