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Vehicle component maker Eaton Corp. has promoted Pavan Pattada to president of the North American truck division, effective Jan. 1.

Service industries in the U.S. expanded in November at the second-fastest pace in more than nine years, a sign the world’s largest economy is powering past a global slowdown.

North American Class 8 truck orders jumped 93.5% in November to 41,000 units, the second-highest total since 2006, ACT Research reported.

Companies in the U.S. added 208,000 workers in November, indicating steady progress in the labor market, a private payrolls report showed.

HELP Inc. announced that the number of qualified fleet customers using its PrePass bypass solution has passed the 40,000 mark as of Dec. 2.

UTi Worldwide Inc., the U.S. logistics firm whose biggest shareholder is hedge fund P2 Capital Partners, has denied a report by Bloomberg News that it is in advanced talks to sell itself to DSV A/S, the Nordic region’s biggest trucking company.

American Trucking Associations pledged that its members will hire 100,000 military veterans over the next two years.

Mark Rosekind, the administration’s choice to lead the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, is scheduled to appear before a key Senate panel Dec. 3.

Tom Petri (R-Wis.), the outgoing chairman of the subcommittee on highways, said he will become a co-sponsor of a bill that would increase federal fuel taxes to support the nation’s transportation system.

A former United Parcel Service Inc. driver is pressing what may become the most significant case in decades on the rights of pregnant workers as she asks the U.S. Supreme Court to expand protection for millions of women.