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Volvo announced today that it has increased its stake in rival Swedish truck- and bus-maker Scania to about 15 percent.

Though well into his 80s, Benjamin Layton still remembers the trucking experiences of his youth — no matter how hard he tries to forget them.

Snapping a streak of seven weeks of increases, the retail price of diesel fuel edged downward by 0.4 cent to a national average of $1.08 a gallon on April 19.

Trucking’s chief regulator put on a softer face as she outlined a three-pronged approach to improve truck safety that includes education, enforcement and expanded use of technology.

Schneider National, the nation’s largest truckload carrier, expects to boost its intermodal business 20% this year and expand the number of intermodal containers in its fleet from 750 to 2,000.

The federal fee for hazardous materials transport registration would take a big jump for a relatively small number of larger carriers and shippers under a new proposal advanced by a cash-hungry Research and Special Programs Administration.

The reviews are in on the Department of Transportation’s draft study of truck size and weight. And depending on the reviewer, the study is good, bad or downright ugly.

The wheels of justice continue to grind slowly in the case of the consent decrees six diesel engine makers signed with the Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency in October.

A botched environmental review of the plan to replace the decaying Woodrow Wilson Bridge could force trucks off the crucial Interstate 95 span.

Trucks cabs are business offices, and that’s the way manufacturers should configure them, said the chief executive of one of the nation’s largest truckload carriers.