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The Minnesota Trucking Association has written to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, urging him “to fully engage” his department in the state government shutdown there in order to “ensure that the state is honoring its obligations as a safety and enforcement partner.”

A commission appointed by Pennsylvania’s governor has endorsed a plan to raise $2.7 billion annually for transportation by increasing fees, shifting programs to other departments and other cost savings.

Truck and engine builder Navistar Inc. said that it has begun selling aftermarket parts on Amazon.com.

Southern California’s “Carmageddon” weekend finished without a hitch as work on Interstate 405 that had closed the busy freeway wrapped up early Sunday, about 17 hours ahead of schedule, the Los Angeles Times reported.

YRC Worldwide expects to turn an operating profit in the second half of this year, the company said in a regulatory filing. It would mark the first such time since late 2007.

The Port of Los Angeles said its June import cargo volume dropped 10% from a year ago, to about 334,000 20-foot equivalent units.

A transportation accident or emergency release that results in an environmental hazard is, for most businesses, an extraordinary occurrence. Yet every business needs to be prepared for such an event.

Oil slipped below $97 a barrel in early trading Monday, continuing to hold in the mid-$90s per-barrel range it’s been in for the past month, Bloomberg reported.

The Manufacturers of Emission Controls Association said its members sold 24,640 diesel engine retrofit devices in 2010.