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Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) is the latest member of Congress to send a letter to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood expressing his strong opposition to a U.S. proposal to buy electronic onboard recorders for Mexican trucks that will travel within the United States.

Volvo Trucks North America and the United Auto Workers said they reached a tentative agreement on a new five-year contract for workers at the heavy-duty New River Valley plant near Dublin, Va.

In March 1972, Riva Ridge was training to win the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes, Col. Harland Sanders was still making appearances at his Kentucky Fried Chicken empire, Transport Topics reported that the Secretary of Transportation proposed the “Busting Road Trust Fund,” and a truck tire salesman turned lobbyist hosted the first Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky.

Class 8 truck manufacturers have a backlog of nearly 100,000 units scheduled to be built over the next 12 months, more than double the number of a year ago, because of a substantial increase in orders over the winter, ACT Research Co. reported.

U.S. retail diesel prices trickled down last week for the first time in nearly four months, the Department of Energy reported, but analysts said it was unlikely the trickle would start a downward trend at the pumps.

U.S. truck tonnage improved from a year earlier for the 15th straight month, enough to allow fleet executives to pursue higher freight rates yet leave them with worries about how global events could hurt the domestic economy.

Consumer confidence fell in March from a three-year high, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.

UPS Inc. said it selected Scott Wicker, one of its veteran engineers, as the corporation’s first chief sustainability officer.

Air and freight forwarder UTi Worldwide’s fiscal fourth-quarter net income jumped to $14.5 million, or 14 cents a share, from $1.5 million, or 2 cents, a year earlier.