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Alliance Parts, Daimler Trucks’ private-label parts unit, said it has partnered with ArvinMeritor, Troy, Mich., to provide remanufactured brake shoes for commercial vehicles in North America.

Wholesale inventories fell in July for the eleventh consecutive month, the Commerce Department said Friday.

U.S. consumer confidence rose in September as job losses slowed and the economy showed signs of improvement, according to the Reuters/University of Michigan monthly consumer sentiment index released Friday.

The price of goods imported to the United States climbed 2% in August, the fifth increase in six months, the Labor Department said Friday.

I believe there are a lot of carriers engaged in “sport trucking” as described in the story “Pace of Fleet Failures Slows as Banks Delay Foreclosures.” Trucking companies that “aren’t doing it for a profit” will hurt only themselves in the end and make it bad for the rest of the industry — both shippers and carriers.

At the very least, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration needs to provide the freight transportation industry sufficient time to respond to its proposal to fix the clearly broken Unified Carrier Registration agreement.

Navistar International Corp. reported a $12 million loss in its fiscal third quarter, but top executive Daniel Ustian said he expects modest improvement in truck orders this quarter and next year, fueled by major fleets’ purchases.

President Obama must decide by Sept. 17 whether to accept the recommendation of the U.S. International Trade Commission to impose tariffs on passenger and light-truck tires made in China, the second-largest U.S. trading partner.