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General Motors Corp. and CNF Inc. have created a joint venture company to serve as the automotive giant’s 4PL — a fourth-party logistics service provider.

Sadly, the secretary of energy in Washington, D.C., doesn’t have a call-in show. If he did, maybe a tough critic could set him straight, because the lack of a national energy strategy is killing us.

California, where the whole emissions thing started, is at it again. And not just for new trucks of the future, but for trucks and buses already on the road. They could eventually get — gasp! — particulate traps, the expensive, heavy and bulky devices first feared in the early 1990s, when exhaust emissions rules seemed impossible to meet.

The differences in the diesel retrofit programs that have been announced in Sacramento, Calif., and Washington, D.C., revolve around money. While the federal government is unable to say how many dollars will actually be available to clean up commercial fleets and municipal transportation, the California government has mandated millions of dollars to help trucking companies retrofit truck engines to meet air-quality standards.

Yossi Sheffi will step down as chief executive officer of Logistics.com and hand the reins over to John Lanigan, a former Schneider National executive.

Layoffs and job eliminations among major truck manufacturers topped 11,900 this year as companies cut back production to try to match costs with falling orders.

In an effort to prevent Nasdaq from following through with plans to delist @Track Communications from the SmallCap Market, the company has requested a hearing with Nasdaq’s Listing Qualifications Panel.

While the federal government can't say how much it will spend to encourage retrofits with cleaner diesel engines, Sacramento, Calif., is spending $50 million to get as many as 6,000 older, dirtier engines off the road.

California, where the whole emissions thing started, is at it again. But this time, the state wants to retrofit older trucks and buses with particulate traps.

In the news this morning: Swift to buy Cardinal Freight Carriers; FedEx second-quarter earnings rise 18%; wind and snow expected to wallop northern Plains, Midwest; and more.