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SAN ANTONIO — Rush Enterprises technician Michael French was named grand champion by his company during a vehicle maintenance competition Dec. 12.

Iowa-based flatbed carrier TMC Transportation is consolidating its southeastern U.S. presence via a $38 million investment in its South Carolina operations.

Maine environmental regulators will decide next week whether the state should join others in adopting California-style regulations to limit the sale of new gas-powered vehicles.

Class 8 retail truck sales in November fell year-over-year for a fourth consecutive month, Wards Intelligence data showed.

New York state economic development incentives helped persuade Whiting Door Manufacturing Corp. to invest $4 million to expand its Akron facility. 

SAN ANTONIO — Rush Enterprises technician Paul Crawford advanced to the final round in the company’s annual technician challenge, hoping to defend his grand champion title.

A Delaware court approved the sale of 128 freight terminals owned by bankrupt less-than-truckload carrier Yellow Corp., according to an audio recording of a Dec. 12 hearing.

The U.S. is planning to rebuild an aging land entry port along a remote Alaskan freight route where document exchanges take place in temperatures that often plunge 50 degrees below zero.

Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton should serve about a decade in prison for misleading investors about the future of the electric truck maker, U.S. prosecutors said.

Eaton Cummins Automated Transmission Technologies’ Endurant XD automated transmission is now available for three vocational Western Star and Freightliner models, the joint venture said Dec. 11.