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The Obama administration has offered states $472 million in federal funding for use toward any transportation construction that previously had been designated for specific projects.

The U.S. Department of Transportation last week launched a test to determine if trucks, cars and buses equipped with wireless devices that allow the vehicles and highway infrastructure to “talk” to each other will prevent crashes, and whether such connected vehicle technology should be required on all vehicles.

With low-mileage used Class 8 trucks increasingly difficult to find, sales declined in July, ACT Research and dealers said.

Cummins Inc. widened its lead in the race to sell Class 8 truck engines during the first half of 2012, providing 63,802 units to customers for a 42.2% market share, up from 34.5% a year earlier, WardsAuto.com reported.

The U.S. retail diesel average price rose 6.1 cents to $4.026 a gallon last week, the first time it has risen above $4 since May, the Department of Energy reported last week.

LISLE, Ill. — Navistar International Corp. executives last week revealed their strategy for introducing a refocused product line with different engine emissions control technology in a bid to recapture market share.

Truck tonnage rose 4.1% in July, extending the streak of consecutive year-over-year increases to 32, American Trucking Associations reported last week.

Truck and trailer parts supplier FleetPride Inc. , said it has acquired Great Lakes Truck & Trailer, Westlake, Mich., for an undisclosed sum.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood launched the Freight Policy Council, a group tasked with generating a national freight policy, as called for in the new highway funding law.

Oil held over $96 a barrel in early trading Friday as forecasters kept an eye on Tropical Storm Isaac, which is likely to move into the Gulf of Mexico next week as a low-level hurricane, Bloomberg reported.