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CEVA Logistics said it won renewal of a contract to provide inbound logistics services for a Ford Motor Co. plant in Claycomo, Mo.

Oil held steady near a seven-month high Tuesday, closing the trading day at $68.55 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, 3 cents below Monday’s closing price, Bloomberg reported.

A bill that would have added 7 cents to Nevada’s 27.75-cent diesel tax for all vehicles except school buses has died in the state’s Senate.

California has set up a loan program for truckers to meet looming stricter emissions requirements next year, but some carriers say the industry is in such a difficult state that they may not last long enough to get the loans, the Santa Cruz (Calif.) Sentinel reported Tuesday.

Mobile communications provider Xata Corp. said it is offering a new color touch screen for use with its in-cab computers.

Onboard scale manufacturer Air-Weigh said that Kalyn Siebert, a subsidiary of Heil Trailer International, has made the Air-Weigh’s trailer scales standard on its heavy-haul trailers.

YRC Worldwide Inc. has sold its Kansas City, Kan., area headquarters to raise cash, but the company will remain at the site in a lease-back plan, the Kansas City Business Journal reported.

Construction spending rose in April by the largest amount since August, the Commerce Department said Monday.

U.S. forecasters expect a “near normal” Atlantic hurricane season, with up to 14 named tropical storms this year during the hurricane season that begins Monday, the Associated Press reported.