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Brent Hilton, the 2008 chairman of the Technology & Maintenance Council, said one of the focuses of his term will be to increase membership among service dealerships that perform essential “heavy-duty” maintenance for trucking.

Plans by the Chinese government to close factories in and around Beijing and Shanghai this summer to reduce air pollution for the 2008 Summer Olympics could cause early or late peak seasonal surges in exports to the United States, shipping industry executives and transportation experts said.

Stung by the sharp rise in diesel prices, fleet executives are pushing to find new ways to stretch their fuel dollars and recover as much of their costs as possible.

Navistar International Corp. said it has renamed most of its subsidiaries in order to “bring clarity” to its growing number of brands.

The National Industrial Transportation League said Bruce Carlton will become the group’s president on June 1. He will succeed interim president Annette Sandberg.

German truck maker MAN AG is not obligated to offer to buy all the shares of Swedish rival Scania AB’s shares, even as MAN has ownership ties with Volkswagen AG, Bloomberg reported.

YRC Worldwide unit Roadway has launched an expedited ocean service from China to the United States, the company said.

Initial jobless claims fell by the most in two and a half years last week, the Labor Department said Thursday.