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Minnesota has implemented its requirement mandating that all diesel sold in the state contain at least 5% biodiesel, the Associated Press reported.

Wabash National Corp. has told the 790 workers it laid off in January that it does not expect to call them back, the Associated Press reported Saturday.

Construction spending rose in March for the first time in six months, the Commerce Department said Monday.

Love's Travel Stops and Country Stores said it will begin installing bulk containers for diesel exhaust fluid, an additive needed for most 2010 diesel truck engines, at 50 of its truck stops beginning in the fourth quarter of this year.

The Environmental Protection Agency is close to proposing standards for ethanol use, but officials face a question on whether or not ethanol’s indirect effects on the environment should be considered in the rule-making process, the Associated Press reported Sunday.

Transportation software firm Xata Corp. said Monday it lost $443,000, or 5 cents per share, in its fiscal second quarter, compared with a loss of $1.3 million, or 17 cents, a year ago.

Outside of short-term survival, the biggest risk to a trucking company operating in a recession is how it is positioned when freight levels return.

The most onerous and misguided portions of the plan by the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to reshape the trucking industry there have been enjoined by a federal court, at least for now.

WASHINGTON — With the expiration of the current highway authorization just five months away, leaders in the House and Senate said they were preparing to draft its replacement with an eye on major structural changes.