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New Class 8 truck orders shot up significantly in May from a year earlier, although they were down slightly from April, two independent research firms reported.

The Senate Commerce Committee last week approved a bill aimed at encouraging states to pass their own distracted driving laws, sending the measure to the Senate floor.

Navistar International Corp. more than doubled its net income during the three months ended April 30, even though the company’s second fiscal-quarter revenue dipped, compared with the same time last year.

Officials at the Port of Los Angeles are crediting their clean trucks program for significantly lowering diesel emissions in 2009.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has proposed reducing the amount of evidence fleets must maintain in order to verify their drivers’ hours-of-service logbooks.

Stephen Neal, chief executive officer of K. Neal International Trucks Inc., said June 4 was “quite a day” for his Hyattsville, Md., dealership. After all, it’s not every day that the commander-in-chief drops in to walk the showroom and discuss the nation’s economic recovery.

LANDOVER, Md. — Their hands covered with black grease, inspectors spent hours on their backs under truck chassis, listened for air leaks in brake lines and squinted over countless driver certifications at Roadcheck this year.

The U.S. retail diesel average dropped 3.4 cents to $2.946 a gallon last week, the fourth weekly decrease in a row that has lowered trucking’s main fuel by 18.1 cents a gallon, the Department of Energy reported.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s board has elected trucking executive John Ruan III as its vice chairman for 2010, American Trucking Associations said Friday.