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IMC Cos. expanded its intermodal drayage operations with the purchase of H&M Terminal Transport from H&M International Transportation in Iselin, N.J.

A group of eight Midwestern states is working to inform truckers of parking availability along major routes.

U.S. manufacturing expanded in December at the fastest pace in three months, as gains in orders and production capped the strongest year for factories since 2004, the Institute for Supply Management said Jan. 3.

The world’s biggest carmakers and technology companies are spending billions of dollars to perfect your ability to drive without thinking. Nissan Motor Co. is taking a different direction — trying to “decode” your thinking so hands-on driving is more fun.

Specialized glass hauler Belmont Enterprises has joined Smokey Point Distributing, a flatbed and heavy specialized carrier that is part of the Daseke Inc. group of companies.

Electric vehicle manufacturer Workhorse Group plans to gain about $5 million as it spins off its SureFly personal helicopter subsidiary into a separate publicly traded company and puts greater focus on its automotive and drone business.

Oil climbed to the highest level in more than two years on estimates that U.S. crude stockpiles fell for a seventh week, while unrest continued in OPEC’s third-biggest producer.

Greg Crawford, an insulin-dependent commercial motor vehicle driver from Oak Park, Mich., says he had to wait months for a medical expert’s verification that his condition was stable before federal regulators cleared him to get back behind the wheel.

Chinese social networking and internet finance firm Renren Inc. said it has agreed to buy 100% of Trucker Path, a website popular with truck drivers in the United States, as part of a strategy to invest in emerging technologies in the transportation industry.