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General Motors will again push back the planned opening of an electric pickup truck plant in suburban Detroit and has delayed a Buick plug-in amid uncertain growth in battery-powered car sales.

DETROIT — U.S. customers who bought a new General Motors vehicle last quarter paid an average of just under $49,900, a price that helped push the company’s net income 15% above a year ago.

UPS boosted its volume in the U.S. for the first time since 2022 during its second quarter, but profit and revenue fell short of Wall Street expectations, partly due to a hefty charge.

Truckers who take their dogs back and forth between the United States and either Canada or Mexico will soon be required to complete a federal form that asserts their pets are at low risk of carrying rabies back into the country.

The national average diesel price dipped 4.7 cents to $3.779 a gallon, according to Energy Information Administration data released July 22.

XPO launched a new service aimed at expanding its cross-border services between the U.S. and Mexico, the company announced July 17.

Members of a specially appointed Truck Leasing Task Force recently concluded that many lease-purchase agreements don't give owner-operators a realistic chance to own their trucks.

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc. launched a new load-matching platform aimed at helping carriers improve efficiency, the company announced July 18.

Illinois is the latest state to offer commercial driver license applicants a written test in Spanish to get more drivers on the road.

Here's the solution to the crossword puzzle found in the July 22, 2024 print edition.