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Consumer confidence dropped in October to its lowest level since March 2009, the New York-based Conference Board said Tuesday.

Truck and engine maker Paccar Inc. said Tuesday its third-quarter profit more than doubled from a year ago, on higher truck sales.

Ryder System said Tuesday its third-quarter profit increased from a year ago and raised its earnings forecast for the rest of 2011.

Cummins Inc. said Tuesday its third-quarter profit rose 60% from a year ago, but the engine maker trimmed its full-year revenue outlook due to “uncertainty around the macro-economic environment.”

Volvo AB’s third-quarter profit jumped 36% and the company predicted industrywide heavy-duty truck sales in North America will rise 20% next year, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

Transportation and third-party logistics firm C.H. Robinson Worldwide said its third-quarter profit rose to $114 million, or 70 cents a share, from $103 million, or 62 cents, a year earlier.

The first Mexican truck crossed the United States border Friday as part of the cross-border trucking pilot program between the countries, the Associated Press reported.

California environmental regulators have approved a slate of amendments to fine-tune the state’s transport refrigerated unit rule, but denied a request by industry stakeholders to push back compliance deadlines by extending the useful life of the units from seven to nine years.

GRAPEVINE, Texas — The new federal rule designed to reduce truck greenhouse-gas emissions by 10% or more starting in 2014 effectively is forcing manufacturers to focus on selling advanced pollution-reduction equipment to fleets that today don’t have the technology such as auxiliary power units, a government official said.