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Love’s Travel Stops and Country Stores has signed a 10-year extension to their agreement with Pegasus TransTech, a provider of the TRANSFLO Express document scanning network, Love's said last week.

Diesel engine maker Cummins Inc.’s emissions subsidiary will lay off about 100 workers at a Wisconsin plant, effective immediately, because of the slumping North American truck market, the company said.

Class 8 trucks rolled up 139.3 billion miles in 2006, up from 130.5 billion in 2005, according to American Trucking Associations’ American Trucking Trends 2008-2009 report, released this week.

President-elect Barack Obama Friday formally named Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.) to be his Transportation Secretary and Rep. Hilda Solis (D-Calif.) to be Secretary of Labor.

Ryder System will scale back its international business and cut 700 U.S. jobs while temporarily laying off 1,425 workers and focusing its operations on the United States, Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom.

The Truck Manufacturers Association has named Timothy Blubaugh as its president.

The Bush administration Friday approved an emergency $17.4 billion bailout of the U.S. auto industry, offering loans in exchange for concessions from automakers and their workers, the Associated Press reported.

U.S. fuel prices continued their steep three-month declines last week, even as the cartel of oil-producing nations announced a record cut in production in an attempt to lift global oil prices in 2009.