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Auto and truck component maker ArvinMeritor Inc. said late Tuesday it will institute a monthly surcharge for components due to rising materials prices.

Canada-based transportation firm Trimac Income Fund said its first-quarter net earnings fell to C$600,000, or about 2 cents per unit, from C$1.5 million, or 5 cents, a year ago.

Ryder System said late Monday it has completed its acquisition of Gator Leasing, privately held company based in Miami.

Transportation software firm Xata Corp. said Monday it lost $1.4 million, or 17 cents a share, in its fiscal second quarter, compared with a loss of $900,000, or 12 cents, a year ago.

I agree with Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters: Congress should continue the cross-border program between the United States and Mexico.

The New York Court of Appeals has upheld the constitutionality of a federal law, known as the Graves Amendment, that bars claims against leasing companies because of actions of equipment lessees.

The California Air Resources Board has confirmed to Transport Topics that Mack Trucks Inc., Cummins Inc. and Volvo Trucks North America have received certification that their heavy-duty engines meet California’s nitrogen oxide emission standards, providing users an exemption from the state’s five-minute idling regulation.

President Bush declared this week as “National Transportation Week” and Saturday to be “National Defense Transportation Day,” the White House said Friday.

Mexico’s principal trucking group said its members have lost more than $2 billion a year because the United States has refused to allow cross-border trucking as required by the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement and that it is seeking damages through arbitration.